Low-Latency Quant Dev (C++) – Remote & Flexible

Understanding Recruitment; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote setup

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Quant Dev to work on latency-sensitive trading systems for a global proprietary trading firm. The role blends quantitative research with high-performance C++ engineering.

You will translate ideas into production-grade systems, focus on latency, reliability, and scalability, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers in a lean, technical environment.

Qualifications

• Strong modern C++ experience in backend or systems engineering.
• Experience building high-performance, low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and distributed systems concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Exposure to trading systems, quant infrastructure, HFT, or market-making environments is beneficial.
• Strong debugging and performance optimisation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise low-latency trading systems and strategy infrastructure.
• Translate quantitative research and trading logic into production-grade C++ systems.
• Improve latency, throughput, and reliability across live trading infrastructure.
• Work on multithreaded and performance-critical backend systems in production.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers on strategy implementation and optimisation.
• Debug and resolve complex performance and infrastructure bottlenecks across live environments.

Skills

Modern C++

Low-latency systems

Multithreading

Distributed systems

Linux

Trading systems exposure

Performance debugging

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Quant Dev to work on latency-sensitive trading systems for a global proprietary trading firm. The role blends quantitative research with high-performance C++ engineering.

You will translate ideas into production-grade systems, focus on latency, reliability, and scalability, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers in a lean, technical environment.