Senior Low-Latency C++/Rust Engineer for eTrading

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Sports benefits

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Corporate events

Job summary

Grid Dynamics, partnered with a Tier 1 investment bank, is building a new high-performance Fixed Income eTrading platform using Rust, while modernising a legacy C++ system. This hands-on role focuses on low-latency infrastructure and requires deep expertise in performance-sensitive software.

You will apply C++ skills and contribute to Rust development across pricing, RFQ, quoting, hedging and algorithmic trading, with ownership from design to production in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial C++ engineering experience.
• Extensive experience building low-latency systems.
• Strong understanding of modern C++ and performance-focused development.
• Experience working with complex, production-grade systems.
• Proven experience developing electronic trading systems.
• Experience operating and supporting production trading platforms.
• Understanding of the performance, reliability and correctness requirements of trading technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new low-latency eTrading systems in Rust.
• Apply established C++ low-latency engineering principles to a modern Rust platform.
• Develop functionality across: RFQ and pricing, Electronic quoting, Hedging, Algorithmic trading.
• Design systems for predictable and consistent latency.
• Profile and measure system performance to identify optimisation opportunities.
• Apply low-level performance techniques around memory, concurrency and CPU efficiency.
• Develop reusable components that can be shared across the wider trading platform.
• Work closely with the bank's eTrading engineers, architects and trading stakeholders.
• Take ownership of technical problems from initial design through to production.
• Help replace and modernise functionality within the existing legacy C++ trading platform.

Skills

C++

Rust

Low-latency

Electronic trading

Performance profiling

Concurrency

Memory layout

Lock-free programming

Mechanical sympathy

Job description

Grid Dynamics, partnered with a Tier 1 investment bank, is building a new high-performance Fixed Income eTrading platform using Rust, while modernising a legacy C++ system. This hands-on role focuses on low-latency infrastructure and requires deep expertise in performance-sensitive software.

You will apply C++ skills and contribute to Rust development across pricing, RFQ, quoting, hedging and algorithmic trading, with ownership from design to production in a regulated environment.