C++ Systems and Performance Engineer

Acquire Me; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me in NYC is seeking a C++ Systems & Performance Engineer for a quant trading environment where C++ is central. You’ll build performance-critical systems and collaborate across market data, execution, pricing and risk infrastructure.

You’ll profile and optimize across memory, CPU, compiler, OS and network, own components from design to production, and join a small, exceptionally strong team. Top-end market compensation awaits based on impact.

Qualifications

• Extensive, real-world C++ development experience.
• Strong understanding of memory, concurrency and data structures.
• Experience building high-performance real-time or large-scale systems.
• Familiarity with cache locality, allocations and compiler behavior.

Responsibilities

• Build performance-critical systems in modern C++.
• Work across market data, execution, simulation and core trading infrastructure.
• Profile and optimize systems across memory, CPU, compiler, OS and network.
• Own technically challenging components from design through production.

Skills

C++ production

Concurrency

High-performance

Cache locality

Performance tuning

Tools

C

Rust

Linux

Networking

GPU

Job description

C++ Systems & Performance Engineer – Quant Trading – NYC

This is an opportunity to build performance-critical systems within a highly technical quantitative trading environment, where C++ is central to the engineering rather than simply one implementation language among many.

Depending on your strengths, you could work across real-time market data, execution systems, pricing and risk infrastructure, simulation platforms, foundational libraries or large-scale compute.

What you’ll do

• Build performance-critical systems in modern C++
• Work across areas including market data, execution, simulation and core trading infrastructure
• Profile and optimize systems across memory, CPU, compiler, operating system and network
• Own technically challenging components from design through production

What we’re looking for

• Deep production experience with C++
• Strong systems fundamentals: memory, concurrency, data structures and computer architecture
• Experience building high-performance, real-time or large-scale systems
• Engineers who care about cache locality, allocations, compiler behaviour and how software performs in practice
• C, Rust, Linux, networking, GPU or compiler experience is highly relevant

You’ll join a small, exceptionally strong engineering team, work on systems where performance has measurable impact and receive compensation at the top end of the market.