C++ Engineer - Electronic Trading & Financial Systems

Senior / Lead C Engineer Electronic Trading & Financial Systems (multiple roles)

Overview

We are working with several top-tier financial institutions and trading firms building mission-critical low-latency systems across electronic trading market access prime brokerage and digital asset infrastructure.

These teams operate at the intersection of high-performance C distributed systems and real-time financial markets. The roles span greenfield development platform modernisation and scaling high-throughput production systems.

What Youll Be Working On
• Depending on the team you may contribute to:
• High-performance C trading platforms (pricing execution order management)
• Low-latency market access and connectivity (FIX / binary protocols)
• Algorithmic trading infrastructure and execution logic
• Prime brokerage & custody systems supporting equities derivatives or digital assets
• Scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems handling real-time data
• Performance optimisation concurrency and memory-critical components

Required Skills
• Strong modern C (C14/17/20) development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures algorithms and system design
• Experience building high-throughput / low-latency systems
• Strong knowledge of Linux multithreading and concurrency
• Experience in financial services trading or real-time systems (preferred but not mandatory for strong engineers)

Nice to Have (Role-Dependent)
• Electronic trading or market access experience
• FIX protocol or exchange connectivity
• Algo trading or execution platforms
• Distributed systems / microservices
• Performance tuning profiling lock-free programming
• Exposure to prime brokerage custody or digital assets
• Python for tooling testing or research