Senior Low-Latency Performance Architect

EC1 Partners; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

EC1 Partners in Singapore seeks aLow‑Latency Principal Engineer to own latency across the full trading platform. You will lead improvements, design telemetry, and coordinate with engineering, infrastructure and business teams to boost performance and reliability.

The role suits a hands-on principal engineer with strong C++ experience and familiarity with high-throughput trading systems, data structures, and benchmarking.

Qualifications

• Experience building or optimising low-latency/high-throughput trading systems.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and performance optimisation.
• Experience with telemetry, instrumentation, observability or benchmarking.
• Exposure to Java and/or Python would be beneficial.
• Good understanding of FX or electronic trading workflows.
• Ability to work across engineering, infrastructure and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, including presenting technical findings to senior audiences.
• Proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable owning complex performance problems end to end.

Responsibilities

• Own latency analysis and optimisation across the trading platform.
• Identify, evidence and prioritise latency-producing bottlenecks.
• Design and implement telemetry, instrumentation and alerting.
• Lead improvements across software, protocols, connectivity, configuration, hardware and networking.
• Develop and optimise low-latency trading services.
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure and business teams.
• Present progress, findings and recommendations to senior management.
• Help drive engineering practices and standards around low-latency performance.

Skills

Low-latency trading

C++ engineering

Performance optimisation

Telemetry/observability

Data structures/algorithms

Java

Python

FX/electronic trading workflows

Tools

Telemetry systems

Job description

EC1 Partners in Singapore seeks aLow‑Latency Principal Engineer to own latency across the full trading platform. You will lead improvements, design telemetry, and coordinate with engineering, infrastructure and business teams to boost performance and reliability.

The role suits a hands-on principal engineer with strong C++ experience and familiarity with high-throughput trading systems, data structures, and benchmarking.