Latency-Focused C++ Engineer for Electronic Trading

Vertus Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

Job summary

Vertus Partners in London is seeking a hands-on C++ Developer to work on the systems behind a global electronic trading platform. The role focuses on deep C++ and Linux work to improve speed, predictability and resilience of live market processing across regions.

You will have space to investigate problems properly, understand behaviour at operating-system and network level, and take changes from technical design through to production.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial C++ development skills with modern language features and concurrency.
• Solid Linux systems knowledge and understanding of OS-level behaviour.
• Experience with TCP/UDP/multicast in high-throughput environments.
• Proven track record building or supporting high-throughput distributed software.
• Proficiency in profiling, debugging and network-analysis to diagnose performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve latency-sensitive C++ services used within an electronic trading environment.
• Tune systems for consistent performance and dependable production behaviour.
• Profile code and diagnose issues using profiling, crash data and runtime tooling.
• Work at the intersection of software, Linux and networking with sensible trade-offs.
• Design concurrent and distributed components to support Real Time workflows at scale.
• Own engineering problems through design, implementation, testing, release and live investigation.

Skills

C++ development

Linux systems

Multithreading

Networking

Performance profiling

Distributed systems

Tools

Packet analysis

Profiling tools

Performance tooling

Debugging tools

Job description

Vertus Partners in London is seeking a hands-on C++ Developer to work on the systems behind a global electronic trading platform. The role focuses on deep C++ and Linux work to improve speed, predictability and resilience of live market processing across regions.

You will have space to investigate problems properly, understand behaviour at operating-system and network level, and take changes from technical design through to production.