Senior C++ Engineer - Market Data & Low-Latency Platform

Tradermath; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with quants and traders to push state-of-the-art performance, applying deep expertise in modern C++, OS internals, CPU/memory architecture, lock-free concurrency, and low-latency networking to deliver robust, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience.
• Experience building low-latency market data ingestion, order execution, and algorithmic trading systems.
• 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 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++

Algorithms

Multithreading

Low latency

OS internals

Networking

Communication

Education

BSc, MSc, or PhD in CS/Math or related

Job description

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

You will collaborate with quants and traders to push state-of-the-art performance, applying deep expertise in modern C++, OS internals, CPU/memory architecture, lock-free concurrency, and low-latency networking to deliver robust, observable systems.