Senior C++ Trading Systems Engineer

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Traders is seeking Senior C++ Software Engineers to join our Amsterdam team. You will develop and roll out our Core platform used by market data, researchers, pricing, and strategies, building scalable, low-latency components for exchange connectivity and the trading engine.

You will work with traders and quants, optimize performance, and implement data-driven pricing and trading strategies across multiple venues, with a focus on reliability and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience (proprietary trading industry preferred).
• Ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable code.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
• Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical business colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and global rollout of our Core platform used in multiple business/focus groups (Market data, Quantitative research, Pricing, Strategies).
• Be involved in the development process, which will be a fast-paced iterative process where you deploy your deliverables and validate them yourself and/or together with traders or quants.
• Develop tools/frameworks to deliver capabilities for tuning/develop data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies.
• Work together with focus group engineers, Quants and Technical traders to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of platform requirements.
• Write software that communicates with exchanges through their APIs, receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, Websocket or HTTP requests.
• Ensure quality of software based on a set of testing suites, which you are expected to use, maintain and extend.
• Optimize exchange communication through kernel bypass, optimizing TLS or the connection handling to an exchange.
• Research exchange behavior in detail to align our behavior to that of an exchange.
• Implement these solutions using the provided exchange SDKs in different languages such as C++, Rust, Python, Typescript.
• Implement trading algorithms based on requirements provided by traders and quants
• Acquire and develop the necessary trading knowledge to successfully translate the requirements into actual software implementation
• Continuously improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine
• Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team
• Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes, unexpected business logic behavior, and performance bottlenecks
• Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions

Skills

C++

Parallel programming

Asynchronous programming

Multithreading

Performance optimization

Communication

Education

BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent

Job description

Flow Traders is seeking Senior C++ Software Engineers to join our Amsterdam team. You will develop and roll out our Core platform used by market data, researchers, pricing, and strategies, building scalable, low-latency components for exchange connectivity and the trading engine.

You will work with traders and quants, optimize performance, and implement data-driven pricing and trading strategies across multiple venues, with a focus on reliability and collaboration.