Remote Senior C++ Low-Latency Engineer | Trading Systems

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy; Manchester; On-site; GBP 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Greenfield projects

Fully remote

High compensation

Potential permanent conversion

Job summary

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy seeks a Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer to design and build high-performance trading infrastructure. The role is fully remote with work across the UK, Netherlands, and France on greenfield systems processing market data.

You will own architecture, testing, and deployment, tackling latency, networking, and concurrency challenges in a senior hands-on capacity, with a 12-month contract and strong compensation.

Qualifications

• Approximately 6+ years of professional C++ engineering experience.
• Genuine production experience building low-latency systems.
• Strong knowledge of C++17 or newer, with C++20 strongly preferred.
• Excellent understanding of modern C++ fundamentals and performance characteristics.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity.
• Experience designing high-performance or distributed systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Background in proprietary trading or electronic trading environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency distributed systems for financial market data.
• Develop performance-critical components using modern C++.
• Own architecture, implementation, testing, optimization, and deployment.
• Build systems supporting high-throughput and latency-sensitive workloads.
• Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, networking, and concurrency.
• Work with TCP, UDP, multicast, messaging, queuing, and Pub/Sub architectures.
• Translate complex requirements into engineering solutions.
• Balance rapid delivery with production-grade reliability and scalability.
• Build comprehensive tests: unit, integration, end-to-end, stress, and performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

Skills

Low-latency C++

Distributed systems

Networking

C++17/20

Performance tuning

Concurrency

Troubleshooting

Job description

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy seeks a Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer to design and build high-performance trading infrastructure. The role is fully remote with work across the UK, Netherlands, and France on greenfield systems processing market data.

You will own architecture, testing, and deployment, tackling latency, networking, and concurrency challenges in a senior hands-on capacity, with a 12-month contract and strong compensation.