C++ Software Engineer - Low Latency Development Group - Hedge Fund

London Area, United Kingdom

My client is a small-mid sized diversified Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund, which includes high frequency trading desks, however low and ultra-low latency technology solutions are intrinsic to both Systematic and Automated Mid and HF teams X-desk for both Listed and OTC Mkts.

YOUR TEAMMATES and required BACKGROUND

The Core Low Latency Engineering Group now seeks several gifted Software Developers , with a genuine passion for Software Engineering (and Computer Science) and C++ . The team is an ensemble of 1st class ComSci graduates from Tier-1 schools inc. EPFL, ETH, Stanford, MIT, TUM, Imperial, Ecole Polytechnique, HKUST, Nanyang, IIT, et al, with 2 to 20 years’ experience many ICs coming from other sectors such as Tech, BigTech, Formula 1, HPC Research Centres, rather than other Funds / Prop Trading firms.

These roles suit individuals for which this will be your 2nd/3rd job post BSc, MSc/MA, PhD, (1 of which will have been in ComSci), so you’ll likely have 2 to Max. 10 yrs’ exp (albeit as a Programmer it's irrelevant whether someone's 16 or 60) as a C++ Developer / Programmer working on high throughput &/ low latency applications in ANY sector(s).

You're a true advocate of the language , who likely follows the ISO/IEC Committee and abreast of the latest paradigms within modern versions (20-26).

What you'll DESIGN, BUILD, IMPLEMENT........

You will work across the following C++17 to 23 based functionality –

from Algo Execution layer

High Performance and ULL Market Data (Feedhandlers to ULL L3)

Order Books

Acceleration of Research Technology platform

exposure to Telemetry (Latency monitoring et al) and Optimization solutions

and much more via rotation during your 1st 18-24 months

There's a multitude of greenfield initiatives across Systematic and higher frequency teams operating in Equity, Debt, Commodities, FX, Derivs (L & Non-Lr) and Digital Assets markets, approved for 2024 and 2025, post outstanding ROI in 2021, 22, and 23.

CULTURE ( 1 of the lowest-attrition rates of any Buyside / Prop firm globally )

You will receive true mentoring here , by innovative and affable leaders passionate about best practice engineering within a collegiate (this is not an internally competitive culture , in fact such is the polar opposite to that demanded and practiced by the Partners and directs) environment.

That said, in collaborative internal environ., within high-pressured ultra competitive sectors, the 'gluing' of exceptional IC talent key. Within this division there are numerous Technical Leaders / Hands-on Dev Mgrs with retained low-level Coding, and SW Arch. expertise, innate man-management skills, married to proven success within the world's premier U.S. Prop Trading firms and Funds, inc. CitSec and DES, enabling a shallow Mkts learning curve.

FYI there's not an annual ~10% cull to keep people on their toes here.

VITAL for these roles

Applicants suited to these roles require very strong skills in ALL the following standard and complex parts of CPP , and be entirely comfortable with HackerRank / LeetCode and peers, plus discussing complex technical topics and software architectures (via Whiteboard / Excalidraw sessions)

STL

Concurrency and Multithreading

Templates / Metaprogramming

Smart Pointers

Memory Management

Polymorphism

Additionally, exposure/familiarity with some of the most Advanced topics / Idioms inc. the likes of Variadic Temp. (within Mp), Plmpl, Copy-Swap, RAII, CRTP, etc., would be greatly valued.

Finally, the supportive aforementioned outstanding academics , coupled with Linux fundamentals are must haves , and given the varied nature of the functionality (mentioned above) you’d touch within LLG, any previous academic or commercial experience of TCP / UDP stacks and socket skills, Kernel Dev / Bypass tech, FPGA (and HDLs), CPU/GPU (with par. lang. such as MPI, CUDA, et al), would be considered an added bonus and utilised.

COMP ( albeit there aren't fixed bands ) and WORK MODEL

A Base comp can range anywhere from £125k-£200k dictated by your technical brilliance across the above pillars, rather than yrs of exp. as a barometer of accurate mk-to-mkt

Guaranteed annual non-deferred Cash Bonus plus Sign-on (and Cash Buyout of EQ, RSU ( with vesting matched ) or forgone Bonus)

Obviously, If you're the next Korotkevich, Grace Hopper, Stroustrup, Ritchie, Guido van Rossum, et al, then the C-Level will happily flex further!

WFH 2-3 days p/wk (during initial calibration with your team, internal clients and parallel teams (such as Trading, Research, ML/DL teams, HPC Infra folk) and systems more days in office prudent.

Full Benefits inc. 10% Non-Contributory pension for UK team.

RTW

UK based need min. Skilled Worker Visa

EU Citizenship holders welcomed (full relocation provided),

For APAC (HK / Sing RTW required (internal move from local office to LDN can be facilitated),

If you finished in the Top 3 in your Cohort (with supportive evidence) in ComSci, AdvComputing, or SW Eng. from one of the World Top 50 Uni outside of the above such as IIT, Tsinghua University, etc., then will be looked at on a case-by-case basis.

As an Engineering and Quant Talent team >40% OF OUR MANDATES are C++ Linux based across multiple Hedge Funds and Prop Trading firms, and their elite FinTech affiliates.