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Senior C++ Low-Latency Systems Engineer (Financial Markets)
Remote
AI Summary
Design and develop high-performance, low-latency distributed systems for financial market data in a fully remote role. Own end-to-end architecture, implementation, and optimization of performance-critical C++ components. Requires 6+ years of production C++ experience with deep expertise in latency-sensitive systems and financial trading infrastructure.
Key Highlights
Fully remote role with potential to convert to permanent after 12-month contract
Competitive compensation range of £200,000–£300,000 annually
Greenfield ownership of low-latency systems for high-throughput financial market data
Key Responsibilities
Design and build low-latency distributed systems for financial market data processing
Develop performance-critical components using modern C++ with focus on optimization
Own architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment of high-throughput systems
Solve complex challenges in latency, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into production-grade solutions
Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, networking, and concurrency
Build comprehensive unit, integration, and performance tests for reliability and scalability
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote work across UK, Netherlands, and France
Competitive compensation (£200,000–£300,000 annually)
Opportunity to convert to permanent employment
Nice to Have
Direct market-data engineering experience
Feed-handler or ticker-plant development
Lock-free programming
Kernel-bypass networking (e.g., Solarflare/Onload, DPDK)
NUMA-aware architecture and cache-aware system design
Experience with FIX or ITCH protocols
Background in proprietary trading, market making, or high-frequency trading
Job Description
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Senior C++ Low-Latency Developer | UK, Netherlands or France|Remote
- Locations: United Kingdom, Netherlands, or France
- Work model: Fully remote
- Employment: 12-month contract
- Compensation: £200,000 - £300,000
- Conversion: Opportunity to convert to permanent by mutual agreement
- Level: Senior Individual Contributor
- Work authorization: Existing right to work in one of the listed countries of residence required
- Join a sophisticated financial technology environment building high-performance trading infrastructure
- Work on greenfield systems processing high-throughput financial market data
- Design and develop performance-critical software using modern C++
- Own technical delivery from architecture through testing and production deployment
- Solve complex latency, networking, concurrency, and distributed-systems challenges
- Work in a senior hands-on engineering position rather than a management role
- Design and build low-latency distributed systems for financial market data
- Develop performance-critical components using modern C++
- Own architecture, implementation, testing, optimization, and deployment
- Build systems supporting high-throughput and latency-sensitive workloads
- Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, networking, and concurrency
- Work with TCP, UDP, multicast, messaging, queuing, and Pub/Sub architectures
- Translate complex or ambiguous requirements into practical engineering solutions
- Balance rapid delivery with production-grade reliability and scalability
- Build comprehensive unit, integration, end-to-end, stress, and performance tests
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
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- Approximately 6+ years of professional C++ engineering experience
- Genuine production experience building low-latency systems
- Strong expertise in C++17 or newer, with C++20 strongly preferred
- Excellent understanding of modern C++ fundamentals and performance characteristics
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity
- Experience designing high-performance or distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of networking and communication protocols
- Experience with latency optimization and performance tuning
- Production experience within traditional financial markets
- Background in a proprietary trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, investment bank, or comparable electronic-trading environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to operate independently in technically demanding environments
- Direct market-data engineering experience
- Feed-handler or ticker-plant development
- Electronic or automated trading systems
- Exchange connectivity
- FIX or ITCH protocols
- Order-book infrastructure
- Smart order routing
- Tick-to-trade optimization
- Lock-free programming
- Kernel-bypass networking
- Solarflare / Onload
- DPDK
- NUMA-aware architecture
- Cache-aware system design
- High-availability and failover systems
- Idempotency and ACID guarantees
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- Proprietary trading
- Market making
- High-frequency trading
- Systematic hedge funds
- Investment-bank electronic trading
- Production market-data infrastructure
- Performance-critical financial systems
- Do not have genuine production low-latency C++ experience
- Have primarily academic or research-based C++ experience without production systems ownership
- Have no professional exposure to trading or financial-market infrastructure
- Have low-latency experience primarily within cryptocurrency trading environments rather than traditional financial markets
- Prefer management responsibilities over hands-on engineering
- Are not comfortable joining through an initial 12-month contract
- Are currently based outside the United Kingdom, Netherlands, or France
- Require visa sponsorship to work from your country of residence
- Greenfield engineering ownership
- Exposure to highly sophisticated financial systems
- Challenging modern C++ development
- Complex low-latency and distributed-systems problems
- High-throughput financial market-data workloads
- End-to-end ownership from architecture to production
- Fully remote work across the UK, Netherlands, and France
- Potential transition into a permanent position after the initial contract
- Opportunity to work on technically demanding systems where engineering performance directly matters
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