Senior C++ Engineer: Low-Latency Market Data & Execution

P2P; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Traders is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead the next-generation architecture of our market data and execution platforms powering our fully systematic trading firm.

You will set the technical direction for the Core Platform supporting quantitative research, pricing, strategy development, and execution across venues, working with quants and traders to push low-latency performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience.
• Experience building low-latency market data ingestion, order execution, and algorithmic trading systems (proprietary trading industry preferred).
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable C++ code.
• Interest in extracting maximum performance from available hardware and software (CPU caches, memory layout, networking).
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and global rollout of our Core market data platform used across multiple focus areas (Market data, Research engineering, Pricing, Strategies).
• Design and implement high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization, and distribution, as well as its usage for order execution and strategy infrastructure.
• Develop tools and frameworks that enable quants and technical traders to build, tune, and deploy data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies.
• Own the full lifecycle of your components in a fast-paced, iterative environment: deploy, monitor, profile, and optimize your code in production.
• Work closely with focus group engineers, quants, and technical traders to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on the platform's design and implementation.

Skills

C++ development

Low-latency systems

Multithreaded programming

Algorithms & data structures

Communication

Performance optimization

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in CS/Math

Tools

Linux OS

Networking fundamentals

Job description

Flow Traders is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead the next-generation architecture of our market data and execution platforms powering our fully systematic trading firm.

You will set the technical direction for the Core Platform supporting quantitative research, pricing, strategy development, and execution across venues, working with quants and traders to push low-latency performance and observability.