Senior HFT Engineer

Senior HFT Engineer focuses on build scalable trading infrastructure, whilst contributing to architecture decisions across networking, hardware utilisation and performance engineering.

What the role involves

• Build scalable trading infrastructure, whilst contributing to architecture decisions across networking, hardware utilisation and performance engineering.
• Develop and optimise C++ software for high-performance trading systems.
• Build infrastructure supporting research, backtesting and live trading workflows.
• Analysing and improve system performance through profiling, benchmarking and optimisation techniques.

Skills and requirements

• Strong commercial experience with modern C++.
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency and lock-free programming.
• Experience working with packet capture, packet replay or low-level network analysis tooling.
• Financial services or trading systems experience is advantageous but not essential.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• 5 days in office.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and senior engineers to design.
• Offers strong ownership and exposure to some of the most technically challenging problems within systematic trading and low-latency engineering.