Senior C++ Low-Latency Market Data Engineer

Stanford Black Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hedge fund in London is seeking a Senior C++ Engineer to focus on low latency market data infrastructure. The role involves engineering multi-asset feed handlers and optimizing performance-critical systems. Candidates should have experience in high-frequency trading or gaming environments, along with mastery in advanced C++ techniques. This role offers a collaborative environment with elite colleagues and cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

• Experience writing performance-critical C++ that moves real money (HFT, finance or gaming).
• Mastery of concurrency, memory models, cache hierarchies, and SIMD.
• A talent for turning packet captures into elegant, deterministic algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Engineer multi-asset feed handlers (NYSE, NASDAQ, B-Pipe, etc.) that stay green.
• Own the full lifecycle: design to benchmarking to deployment at microsecond granularity.
• Collaborate with infra to squeeze every last clock cycle from bespoke kernels, FPGA NICs, and bleeding-edge CPUs.

Skills

Performance-critical C++

Concurrency

Memory models

Cache hierarchies

Deterministic algorithms

Education

Good educational background

Job description

A prestigious hedge fund in London is seeking a Senior C++ Engineer to focus on low latency market data infrastructure. The role involves engineering multi-asset feed handlers and optimizing performance-critical systems. Candidates should have experience in high-frequency trading or gaming environments, along with mastery in advanced C++ techniques. This role offers a collaborative environment with elite colleagues and cutting-edge technology.