Remote Senior C++ Low-Latency Systems Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Contract-to-permanent opportunity

Mutual conversion to permanent

Job summary

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy is recruiting a Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer for a remote, 12-month contract across the UK, Netherlands or France. You will design and build high-performance trading infrastructure in a sophisticated financial tech environment.

You will own architecture, testing and deployment, tackling latency, networking, concurrency and distributed-systems challenges in a hands-on engineering role. Remote work is fully supported.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional C++ engineering experience.
• Genuine production experience building low-latency systems.
• Strong expertise in C++17 or newer, with C++20 preferred.
• Excellent understanding of modern C++ fundamentals and performance characteristics.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity.

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 and networking.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

Skills

C++

Low-latency

Distributed systems

Networking

Performance optimization

Job description

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy is recruiting a Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer for a remote, 12-month contract across the UK, Netherlands or France. You will design and build high-performance trading infrastructure in a sophisticated financial tech environment.

You will own architecture, testing and deployment, tackling latency, networking, concurrency and distributed-systems challenges in a hands-on engineering role. Remote work is fully supported.