Senior C++ Developer - Trading Systems

Intellectual Capital HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellectual Capital HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd. invites an experienced Senior C++ developer to design and optimise high-performance trading applications for a brokerage focused on ETFs, indices, commodities and systematic strategies.

You will build low-latency systems, work with traders and quants, and mentor junior developers while ensuring reliability and scalability across market data and execution stacks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of C++ development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Modern C++, STL and OOP.
• Experience with Linux, multithreading, TCP/IP and sockets.
• Strong debugging and performance optimisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain low-latency trading applications in Modern C++ (C++17/20).
• Build and optimise market data, order management and execution systems.
• Develop multithreaded, high-performance applications and exchange connectivity.
• Optimise performance, reliability and scalability; troubleshoot production issues; review code.
• Collaborate with traders and quants; mentor junior developers.

Skills

Modern C++

C++17/20

Multithreading

Linux

TCP/IP & Sockets

Data structures & algorithms

OOP

Debugging

Performance optimisation

Tools

Boost

IPC

Shared memory

Python

Job description

An established brokerage firm investing in proprietary trading across ETFs, index products, commodities and systematic strategies is hiring a senior C++ developer to build and optimise high-performance, low-latency trading applications.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain low-latency trading applications in Modern C++ (C++17 / C++20)
• Build and optimise market data, order management and execution systems
• Develop multithreaded, high-performance applications and exchange connectivity
• Optimise application performance, reliability and scalability; troubleshoot production issues; review code
• Work alongside traders, quants and technology teams; mentor junior developers

Required skills:

• 5+ years of C++ development; strong Modern C++, data structures, algorithms, STL and OOP; Linux, multithreading, TCP/IP and socket programming; strong debugging and performance optimisation.

Preferred skills:

• Aalgorithmic trading, proprietary trading or HFT experience; FIX protocol, market data feeds and low-latency system design; Boost, IPC, shared memory and Python.
• The gate here is engineering depth trading domain exposure is preferred, not required.