Senior C++ Engineer: Build Low-Latency Trading Platforms

Flow Traders NV; Greater London; On-site; GBP 93,800 - 127,909; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flow Academy

Daily catered lunch

In-house gym and nutrition sessions

Company boat

Bi-weekly massages

Global rotations across offices

Competitive salary and profit share

Job summary

Flow Traders is seeking Senior C++ Software Engineers to join our Amsterdam team. You will build high-performance, low-latency trading systems used by researchers and traders, handling data across multiple venues with a focus on reliability and throughput.

You'll collaborate with technologists, quants, and traders to refine requirements and deliver scalable enhancements to the core platform and exchange connectivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years post‑graduation professional C++ software development experience (proprietary trading industry preferred).
• Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and global rollout of our Core platform used in multiple business/focus groups (Market data, Quantitative research, Pricing, Strategies).
• Be involved in the development process, deploying deliverables and validating with traders/quants.
• Develop tools/frameworks to support data-driven pricing and trading strategies
• Collaborate with focus group engineers, Quants and Technical traders to refine requirements and iterate designs
• Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions

Skills

C++

High performance

Multithreaded programming

Low-latency systems

Linux

Algorithms & data structures

Communication

Distributed systems

Networking protocols

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in CS/Math or equivalent

Tools

GCC/Clang

Perf profiling tools

Git

Exchange SDKs

Unix tooling

Job description

Flow Traders is seeking Senior C++ Software Engineers to join our Amsterdam team. You will build high-performance, low-latency trading systems used by researchers and traders, handling data across multiple venues with a focus on reliability and throughput.

You'll collaborate with technologists, quants, and traders to refine requirements and deliver scalable enhancements to the core platform and exchange connectivity.