Senior C++ Engineer for Low-Latency Trading Systems

P2P; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Traders is seeking talented C++ Engineers to join our expanding team in Hong Kong. This role focuses on building systems that analyze and trade numerous products across global trading venues daily.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in C++ development, preferably in the trading sector. Responsibilities include designing trading systems and optimizing performance to ensure market-leading reliability.

We value teamwork and collaboration, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience, ideally in the proprietary trading industry.
• Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code.
• Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver trading systems processing billions of market data updates daily.
• Measure and optimize system performance for reliability, latency, and throughput.
• Collaborate with teams across Technology, Trading, and Quantitative Research.
• Push changes to production quickly, collecting feedback to refine approach.

Skills

C++ programming

Parallel programming

Multithreaded programming

Algorithms and data structures

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent

Tools

CMake

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Flow Traders is seeking talented C++ Engineers to join our expanding team in Hong Kong. This role focuses on building systems that analyze and trade numerous products across global trading venues daily.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in C++ development, preferably in the trading sector. Responsibilities include designing trading systems and optimizing performance to ensure market-leading reliability.

We value teamwork and collaboration, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.