C++ Software Engineer, Live Trading Systems

Tradermath; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group in Singapore seeks a skilled C++ engineer to design, build, and maintain the live trading system and supporting infrastructure. You will collaborate with research, operations, and engineering to deploy high-performance solutions that power our global markets.

The APAC C++ team develops cutting-edge platforms for market data, order entry, and post-trade analytics, with a focus on reliability and speed in production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficient in C++ with hands-on experience working with large-scale systems.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, networking concepts and operating systems.
• Solid debugging skills and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly.
• Comfortable working on Linux — command line, debugging, and bare-metal environments.

Responsibilities

• Live trading system — Design, build, and maintain the systems that connect strategies to the exchange, including market data handling and the full order lifecycle.
• Business-specific infrastructure — Build trading platforms that support expansion into new markets.
• Risk infrastructure — Design modules that monitor performance in real-time and apply pre-trade and post-trade controls.
• Back testing infrastructure — Build and maintain the back testing infrastructure used by researchers to evaluate systematic strategies against large-scale historical market data.
• Post-trade analysis — Produce the datasets that traders and quantitative researchers rely on daily to power analytics.
• Production ownership — Debug real incidents, trace data through the full pipeline, and own it.

Skills

C++

Large-scale systems

Data structures

Algorithms

System design

Networking concepts

Operating systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Tools

Python

Linux

Job description

Jump Trading Group in Singapore seeks a skilled C++ engineer to design, build, and maintain the live trading system and supporting infrastructure. You will collaborate with research, operations, and engineering to deploy high-performance solutions that power our global markets.

The APAC C++ team develops cutting-edge platforms for market data, order entry, and post-trade analytics, with a focus on reliability and speed in production environments.