High Performance C++ Developer - London- Prop Trader & Market Maker

eFinancialCareers; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an award-winning algorithmic trading company as part of their exchange trading development team. Leverage your expertise in modern C++ and systems programming to help build software for a cutting-edge research cluster. The organization, known for its diverse employee background, offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive base salary and annual discretionary bonus

25 days' holiday + statutory holidays + paid sick days

Onsite doctor and therapist at no charge

Onsite gym, sauna and fitness classes at no charge

Breakfast and lunch provided Monday to Thursday

Beautiful office in King's Cross

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field required.
• Experience with modern C++ necessary for development.
• Familiarity with performance trade-offs in algorithms important.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for a distributed research cluster.
• Contribute to building an optimising JIT compiler.
• Work on a custom compression codec.

Skills

Modern C++

Strong knowledge of computer internals

Algorithms and data structures

Networking and systems programming

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

This is an opportunity to join an award-winning algorithmic trading company, operating as a proprietary trader and market maker.

In their research cluster they have over 6000 GPUs and 120 petabytes of usable storage, allowing them to trade c.$295 billion per day. As a result, they are the third largest FX liquidity provider globally with only 170 employees!

In 2021, their UK entities reported revenues of £1.477bn, with net profit of £667m!

They are expanding their exchange trading development team to take on a new remit, building software for their research cluster. They're currently working on an exabyte-scale highly available distributed filesystem, an optimising JIT compiler targeting massively parallel computation and several in- house custom compression codecs.

People they've hired come from a diverse range of backgrounds (gaming companies, Meta, Google, winners of ACM ICPC, Google Code Jam, Olympiads, etc.).

New codebase working on C++ up to C++20.

Salary: Competitive / Market-Leading

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another highly technical, scientific discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of modern C++
• Strong knowledge of what is really going on inside a computer
• Good familiarity with common algorithms and data structures and their performance trade-offs
• In-depth knowledge and experience in at least one of: host-based networking, Linux/Unix administration, systems programming, distributed systems

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary and annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days' holiday + statutory holidays + paid sick days
• Onsite doctor and therapist at no charge
• Onsite gym, sauna and fitness classes at no charge
• Breakfast and lunch provided Monday to Thursday
• Beautiful office in King's Cross

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Contact
To apply for this role, please email your CV to:

Kishan Patel
[e-mail]
020 3137 9572
linkedin.com/in/kishan-patel-4029aa8b