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Senior C++ Engineer - Low-Latency Trading Systems

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Senior C++ Engineer to own the architecture and performance of latency-critical trading execution systems. Design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems using modern C++ and Linux for cryptocurrency market making. Requires 5+ years of experience in HFT, real-time systems, and low-contention system design.

Key Highlights
Full technical ownership of the core trading execution layer and performance targets.
Focus on microsecond-level performance, tail latency, and lock-free programming.
Fully remote role with profit sharing and pre-funding equity.
Key Responsibilities
Own and evolve the architecture and behavior of the core trading execution layer.
Design and implement execution logic covering quoting behavior, order lifecycle policies, inventory-aware execution, and risk-aware decision-making.
Define performance targets and strategies for the execution stack, including latency budgets, critical-path design, contention boundaries, and correctness guarantees.
Profile and optimize systems under real market workloads, focusing on tail latency, jitter, cache locality, memory allocation, and stability under stress.
Build and improve high-throughput, low-latency systems using modern C++ and Linux.
Apply multithreading, atomic operations, lock-free techniques, and low-contention designs where appropriate.
Develop and optimize network communication using TCP/UDP, sockets, epoll, or comparable APIs.
Evaluate scheduling behavior, CPU affinity, runtime performance, and Linux networking configurations to improve execution efficiency.
Work closely with traders and quantitative researchers to refine execution behavior using feedback from live trading.
Guide and review other engineers’ work to ensure alignment with architectural, performance, and reliability goals.
Help evolve trading infrastructure and execution practices as quantitative trading develops alongside AI-assisted engineering and research.
Technical Skills Required
C++ Linux Low-Latency Systems
Benefits & Perks
Base compensation plus meaningful profit sharing
Pre-funding equity
Visa sponsorship in multiple jurisdictions
Periodic in-person research and development sprints
Nice to Have
Experience in cryptocurrency trading or digital asset markets.
Familiarity with exchange mechanics, order book dynamics, and market-making strategies.
Background in trading infrastructure, networking, real-time systems, or other performance-critical backends.
Experience working closely with quantitative researchers and traders to improve live execution systems.

Job Description

About Chainsage

Chainsage is a fully remote quantitative trading firm with fewer than 20 team members, operating across major cryptocurrency trading venues. The firm develops proprietary, latency-critical systems for systematic market making and basis arbitrage, building its trading infrastructure from first principles.

Chainsage is well funded and operates with a lean, autonomous team structure. Its engineering approach focuses on bringing execution, systems design, and quantitative research together while maintaining performance, determinism, and correctness.

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