C++ Trading Engineer - Low-Latency Real-Time Trading

True Markets; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

Medical, dental & vision

Based in NYC office

Job summary

True Markets is seeking a Trading Engineer to join our core C++ services, including a high-performance matching engine, market data pipeline, and REST/WebSocket/FIX gateways. You will own components gradually, emphasize correctness under failure, and collaborate with senior engineers to ship reliable trading software.

The role emphasizes performance, concurrency, and observability with Grafana and Prometheus, plus equity opportunity and full medical benefits. NYC office-based, full-time.

Qualifications

• 2+ years writing production systems code.
• Proficient in modern C++ (C++17+) and tooling (CMake, gcc/clang, unit test framework).
• Experience on Linux for building, running, and debugging services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trading services in modern C++ on Linux.
• Deliver scoped slices of larger projects from ticket to production.
• Work on market data pipeline and client-facing gateways (REST, WebSocket, FIX).
• Write and maintain automated tests to prove behavior under failure and restart.
• Investigate production issues from logs, metrics, and dashboards.

Skills

C++17

Linux

Concurrency

Unit testing

CMake

GCC/Clang

Code reviews

Tools

CMake

GCC/Clang

Unit test framework

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

True Markets is seeking a Trading Engineer to join our core C++ services, including a high-performance matching engine, market data pipeline, and REST/WebSocket/FIX gateways. You will own components gradually, emphasize correctness under failure, and collaborate with senior engineers to ship reliable trading software.

The role emphasizes performance, concurrency, and observability with Grafana and Prometheus, plus equity opportunity and full medical benefits. NYC office-based, full-time.