Proprietary Trading

Software Engineer, C++

at Flow Traders

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipC/C++/C#

Posted a day ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: Hong Kong
Country: China

Flow Traders is hiring experienced C++ engineers to build and optimise ultra-low-latency, event-driven trading systems. You will develop software that processes massive volumes of market data, orders and trading decisions across global venues, working closely with traders and quantitative researchers. The role emphasises performance, reliability, multithreaded programming and rapid iteration to push changes to production.

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Flow Traders is seeking talented C++ Engineers to join our growing team in Hong Kong. Software Engineers at Flow Traders provide us with our competitive edge, equipping researchers and traders with the information and capabilities that they need to make sound business decisions. C++ plays a critical role in our event-driven trading systems, which are designed to reliably handle vast amounts of data at ultra-low latencies.

As a C++ Engineer, you will build systems used to analyze and trade tens of thousands of products across hundreds of global trading venues every day. Working closely with technologists, quantitative researchers and traders, you'll guide the development of our in-house trading technology and optimize it to achieve market-leading performance and reliability.

Teamwork is one of our most important firm values and end users are never more than a short walk away, guaranteeing short feedback loops and immediate insight into the value that your code provides. To foster collaboration and innovation, we maintain shared libraries, encourage code re-use, and continuously evolve our views on application architecture.

What You Will Do

Design and deliver trading systems that process billions of market data updates, orders and trading decisions across thousands of products on hundred of global trading venues every day
Measure and optimize performance to achieve best-in-class reliability, latency and throughput
Collaborate directly with global colleagues across Technology, Trading and Quantitative Research to shape the direction of our proprietary trading infrastructure
Iterate fast and often, pushing changes to production, collecting feedback and using it to refine your approach

Technologies we use:

C++17/C++20 (with gcc/clang and CMake) and Python 3
Bitbucket (Git) version control, Bamboo CI/CD, Ansible deployment automation
Debian Linux across development and production environments
Jira project management, Confluence knowledge base

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent
5+ years of 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

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

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