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C++ Engineer, Trading Systems

talisman

Location

Chicago, IL

Salary

Not specified

Type

fulltime

Posted

Today

via linkedin

Job Description

Software Engineer, C\+\+ Trading Systems

We're partnering with a proprietary trading firm making who is looking to add a C\+\+ Software Engineer to design and build the low-latency systems that power live trading, risk, and pricing across the firm.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain high-performance distributed systems that process real-time and historical market data at scale
  • Design low-latency C\+\+ (C\+\+17/20) components supporting core trading infrastructure, including execution and order handling
  • Partner with traders and engineers to turn strategy and modeling requirements into production-grade code
  • Apply multithreaded and lock-free programming techniques to improve throughput and reduce latency across the stack
  • Use profiling and diagnostic tooling to identify bottlenecks and guide performance improvements

Requirements:

  • Background at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, or similar electronic trading environment is required.
  • 4\+ years of professional C\+\+ experience in a high-performance, real-time trading environment
  • Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management
  • Linux-based system-level programming experience, including networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets)
  • Hands-on debugging/profiling skills (GDB, Wireshark, tcpdump, or equivalent)
  • A plus: exposure to options/derivatives pricing models, quantitative research platforms, or KDB\+/q for time-series analysis

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