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

Oxford Knight; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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