Founding Trading Systems Developer | Low Latency C++ | Electronic Trading | London

Stanford Black Limited; City Of London; Sur place; GBP 80 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Stanford Black Limited is seeking an exceptional C++ Engineer to architect and develop the low-latency core of its global trading platform in the City of London. This founding role offers greenfield ownership, architectural influence, and the chance to shape a sophisticated financial system.

You will build and optimise high-performance, latency-sensitive distributed systems handling market data, pricing, order routing, execution, and real-time risk management, with direct impact on trading

Qualifications

• Exceptional modern C++ development skills, ideally C++17/20.
• Experience designing and building performance-critical distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency and low-level systems programming.
• Experience optimising latency-sensitive applications through profiling and performance analysis.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with market data or electronic trading infrastructure would be highly valuable.

Responsabilités

• Architecting and developing high-performance trading systems using modern C++.
• Building latency-critical infrastructure across market data, pricing, execution and order management.
• Designing highly concurrent, distributed systems capable of processing real-time market information.
• Optimising performance across CPU utilisation, memory management, network I/O and thread contention.
• Engineering robust messaging infrastructure connecting critical components of the trading platform.
• Profiling and benchmarking systems to improve latency, throughput and operational resilience.
• Driving architectural decisions and delivering complex engineering projects from design through production.

Connaissances

C++ development

Distributed systems

Multithreading

Performance profiling

Linux networking

Networking fundamentals

Trading infrastructure

Description du poste

One of the most technically sophisticated electronic trading firms is seeking an exceptional C++ Engineer to help architect and develop the low-latency systems at the heart of its global trading platform.

This is an opportunity to solve some of the most challenging engineering problems in financial markets, building performance-critical infrastructure where microseconds, reliability and architectural decisions have a direct impact on trading performance.

You'll work across the entire electronic trading lifecycle, developing the distributed systems responsible for market data, pricing, order routing, execution and real-time risk management.

This is a founding engineering position offering greenfield technical ownership, architectural influence and the opportunity to shape the evolution of a sophisticated trading platform.

What you'll be doing

• Architecting and developing high-performance trading systems using modern C++
• Building latency-critical infrastructure across market data, pricing, execution and order management
• Designing highly concurrent, distributed systems capable of processing real-time market information
• Optimising performance across CPU utilisation, memory management, network I/O and thread contention
• Engineering robust messaging infrastructure connecting critical components of the trading platform
• Profiling and benchmarking systems to improve latency, throughput and operational resilience
• Driving architectural decisions and delivering complex engineering projects from design through production

You bring

• Exceptional modern C++ development skills, ideally C++17/20
• Experience designing and building performance-critical distributed systems
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency and low-level systems programming
• Experience optimising latency-sensitive applications through profiling and performance analysis
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals
• Experience with market data, exchange connectivity or electronic trading infrastructure would be highly valuable

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