Remote-First Quantitative Developer — Low-Latency Systems

Understanding Recruitment; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is hiring a Quant Dev to work on the systems underpinning a global proprietary trading firm. The role sits at the intersection of quantitative ideas, trading logic, and high-performance C++ engineering, with a focus on latency-sensitive production systems.

You will translate research into robust, scalable backends, optimize latency and throughput, and collaborate closely with traders and researchers on live infrastructure and strategy development in a lean, technically

Qualifications

• Strong modern C++ experience in backend or systems engineering.
• Experience building high-performance, low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise low-latency trading systems and strategy infrastructure.
• Translate quantitative research and trading logic into production-grade C++ systems.
• Improve latency, throughput and reliability across live trading infrastructure.
• Work on multithreaded and performance-critical backend systems under real production load.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers and engineers on strategy implementation and optimisation.
• Debug and resolve complex performance bottlenecks across live environments.

Skills

C++

Low-latency

Multithreading

Linux

Trading systems

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is hiring a Quant Dev to work on the systems underpinning a global proprietary trading firm. The role sits at the intersection of quantitative ideas, trading logic, and high-performance C++ engineering, with a focus on latency-sensitive production systems.

You will translate research into robust, scalable backends, optimize latency and throughput, and collaborate closely with traders and researchers on live infrastructure and strategy development in a lean, technically