C++ Systems & Performance Engineer — Real-Time Trading

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

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.