Senior C++ Engineer - Low-Latency Trading

Fintal Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners is seeking a Senior C++ Developer to join a high-performance engineering team powering real-time trading across global markets. You will design, develop and optimize low-latency applications, working closely with traders and researchers to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

The role focuses on reducing latency through profiling, tuning, and code optimization, while ensuring scalable and reliable systems for market data processing.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building low-latency, high-performance systems.
• Strong understanding of memory management, multi-threading and concurrent programming.
• Experience profiling applications and optimizing CPU, cache utilization and network performance.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux development environments and systems programming.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and optimize high-performance C++ applications for low-latency trading environments.
• Reduce system latency through profiling, performance tuning and code optimization.
• Build scalable, resilient software used in electronic trading and market data processing.
• Work closely with traders, quantitative researchers and infrastructure engineers to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Identify bottlenecks across software and hardware, implementing improvements to maximize throughput and minimize latency.

Skills

Low-latency programming

Multi-threading

Profiling

Performance tuning

Memory management

Linux systems programming

Concurrent programming

Network performance

Tools

RDMA

DPDK

Kernel bypass

Job description

Fintal Partners is seeking a Senior C++ Developer to join a high-performance engineering team powering real-time trading across global markets. You will design, develop and optimize low-latency applications, working closely with traders and researchers to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

The role focuses on reducing latency through profiling, tuning, and code optimization, while ensuring scalable and reliable systems for market data processing.