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A top-tier quantitative trading firm specializing in high-frequency, automated strategies is seeking an elite, performance-obsessed Senior C++ Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the exchange connectivity stack
Key Responsibilities
- Connectivity Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain the low-latency Feed Handlers and Order Gateways in modern C++.
- Optimization: Perform deep, system-level performance tuning using profiling tools to optimize for cache usage, memory alignment, and CPU affinity.
- Protocols: Develop and optimize custom implementations of financial protocols, including FIX, ITCH, FAST, and proprietary exchange binary APIs.
- Kernel Bypass: Implement and manage kernel-bypass networking solutions (e.g., DPDK, ExaNIC, Solarflare) to achieve deterministic performance.
- Systems Engineering: Apply expert knowledge of Linux internals (scheduling, memory management, huge pages) for resource isolation and stability.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years building and optimizing ultra-low latency systems in HFT or a similar domain.
- C++: Expert proficiency in modern C++, including template meta-programming and performance-critical STL usage.
- Concurrency: Mastery of multithreading, concurrent data structures, and lock-free programming with C++ atomics.
- Networking: Deep knowledge of low-level network programming, sockets, and Multicast/TCP/UDP.
- OS Internals: Advanced tuning experience with the Linux operating system and performance monitoring tools.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative field.
If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please send your resume in Word format to Saswiko KJ at resume[at]pinpointasia.com and put Senior C++ Connectivity Engineer, Low-Latency Trading - Global Quantitative Trading Firm in the subject header. Data provided is for recruitment purposes only.
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