Senior C++ Engineer — Low-Latency Market Data & Trading

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Global rotations

Wellness and healthy culture

Collaborative working environment

Job summary

Flow Traders NV is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead architecture for market data and execution platforms powering systematic trading. You will push the path from wire to strategy with a focus on latency, observability, and robustness.

You will work with quants and traders to design and implement high-performance market data ingestion, normalization, and distribution components across venues, while owning full lifecycle from deployment to optimization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of post-graduation C++ software development experience.
• Experience building low-latency market data and trading systems (proprietary/systems).
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
• Clean, reliable, and highly scalable C++ code writing.
• Interest in extracting maximum performance from hardware and software.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and global rollout of the Core market data platform.
• Design high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization and distribution.
• Develop tools for quants and traders to build data-driven strategies.
• Own full lifecycle of components: deploy, monitor, profile, and optimize in production.
• Collaborate with quants, engineers, and traders to refine requirements and iterate designs.

Skills

C++

Low-latency

Multithreading

Lock-free concurrency

Networking

Performance tuning

Communication

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in CS or Math

Tools

Linux/Unix

Profiling tools

OS internals

Job description

Flow Traders NV is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead architecture for market data and execution platforms powering systematic trading. You will push the path from wire to strategy with a focus on latency, observability, and robustness.

You will work with quants and traders to design and implement high-performance market data ingestion, normalization, and distribution components across venues, while owning full lifecycle from deployment to optimization.