Senior Software Engineer

Understanding Recruitment; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Small, selective team

Ownership from idea to production

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment has partnered with a proprietary trading firm to recruit a C++ Software Engineer for high-frequency trading infrastructure. You will design and optimize high-performance C++ systems handling market data, exchange connectivity, and trade execution, with direct ownership from concept to production.

Join a small, highly technical team where software improvements immediately impact trading performance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with modern C++ in production.
• Experience in HFT / electronic trading or market making.
• Experience building high-performance distributed or latency-sensitive systems.
• Solid understanding of networking and concurrent programming.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise high-performance C++ systems for HFT.
• Develop exchange connectivity, market data, and execution infrastructure.
• Improve latency, throughput and reliability across distributed systems.
• Write clean, maintainable software using modern C++.
• Collaborate with traders and researchers to deploy ideas to production.
• Profile, benchmark and optimise system performance.
• Contribute to evolution of trading platform and tooling.

Skills

Modern C++

HFT/Electronic trading

Distributed/latency-sensitive

Networking & concurrent programming

Problem solving

Job description

I'm partnering with a highly successful proprietary trading firm that is looking to hire a C++ Software Engineer to build the systems that power its high-frequency trading infrastructure.

You'll work on performance-critical software responsible for market data, exchange connectivity and trade execution, helping to improve the speed, reliability and efficiency of live trading systems. Working closely with traders, quantitative researchers and fellow engineers, you'll take ownership of projects from design through to deployment in a collaborative, high-performance environment.

This is an opportunity to join a small, highly technical team where engineering work has a direct impact on trading performance and successful ideas can move quickly from concept to production.

What you'll do

• Design, build and optimise high-performance C++ systems used in a high-frequency trading environment
• Develop and improve exchange connectivity, market data and execution infrastructure
• Improve latency, throughput and reliability across distributed systems
• Build clean, maintainable software using modern C++
• Work closely with traders and quantitative researchers to deliver ideas into production
• Profile, benchmark and optimise system performance
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the firm's trading platform and engineering tooling

What we’re looking for

• Strong commercial experience with modern C++
• Experience within top-tier HFT/electronic trading/market making
• Experience building high-performance, distributed or latency-sensitive systems
• Good understanding of networking and concurrent programming
• Strong problem-solving skills and a desire to tackle complex technical challenges

• Fully remote
• Small, highly selective team of engineers, traders and researchers
• Direct ownership of projects from idea to production
• Flat structure with minimal bureaucracy
• Performance-critical systems with immediate business impact