Low Latency C++ Developer

Bowden Brown; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Bowden Brown is partnering with a world-leading quantitative trading firm to craft the next generation trading platform in New York City. You will work on ultra-low latency C++ systems where latency, performance and reliability directly impact trading outcomes.

Join a team of world-class engineers solving distributed systems and performance challenges daily, with significant ownership from day one and market-leading compensation and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of low latency programming techniques.
• Experience with multithreading, lock-free programming and concurrency.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, networking and systems programming.
• A passion for writing elegant, highly optimised software.

Responsibilities

• Design and build ultra-low latency C++ systems powering electronic trading.
• Optimise critical code paths, networking and memory management.
• Develop high-performance market data and execution infrastructure.
• Work close to traders and researchers to turn ideas into production systems.
• Profile, benchmark and continuously improve performance across the stack.

Skills

Low latency

Multithreading

Linux internals

C++

Job description

We're partnering with one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms as they continue to invest heavily in their next generation trading platform. You'll work on some of the fastest systems in finance, building infrastructure where latency, performance and reliability directly impact trading success.

You'll join a team of world-class engineers solving challenging distributed systems and low-level

performance problems every day.

What you'll work on

• Design and build ultra-low latency C++ systems powering electronic trading.
• Optimise critical code paths, networking and memory management.
• Develop high-performance market data and execution infrastructure.
• Work close to traders and researchers to turn ideas into production systems.
• Profile, benchmark and continuously improve performance across the stack.

What we're looking for

• Strong understanding of low latency programming techniques.
• Experience with multithreading, lock-free programming and concurrency.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, networking and systems programming.
• A passion for writing elegant, highly optimised software.

Experience from proprietary trading, hedge funds, exchanges or market makers is ideal, but we're equally interested in exceptional engineers from high-performance software backgrounds.

• Work alongside some of the strongest C++ engineers in the industry.
• Highly collaborative, engineering-first culture.
• Significant ownership from day one.
• Market-leading compensation and performance bonuses.