Lead C++ Engineer

2 weeks ago


London UK, UK, United Kingdom Harrington Starr Full time

Want to be a part of building high-performance foreign exchange trading systems?

Contribute to all aspects of application development including functional and technical specifications, design, development and production support.


Key Duties & Responsibilities.

  • Systems development on a mature, modern codebase written in C++
  • Test, evaluate and recommend technologies to improve overall solutions
  • Constantly improving the development life cycle and code quality
  • Communicate and collaborate with the research and trading teams to design and deliver innovative, high-quality solutions
  • Provide day-to-day support for the applications
  • Code reviews, mentoring juniors
  • Project planning, delegation of tickets



Requirements, Skills & Experience

  • Must have 6+ years of relevant industry experience with modern C++
  • Must have 3+ year experience with SQL, or a comparable relational database
  • Solid understanding of TCP/UDP standards and network protocols
  • Experience with writing low latency single and concurrent threaded applications
  • Understanding of the C++ development life cycle and tooling on RHEL Linux
  • Exposure to the FIX protocol
  • Exposure to test-driven development


Working practices are relaxed, as is the office environment. They want to get the best out of you and give you an environment where you can do great work.


It’s rare to find a role where the impact of what you do can have such an immediate impact and often has the potential to move markets.


No sponsorship is given on this occasion.


Contact Ciara Clarke for a confidential discussion on this role.


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