Senior Software Engineer

C++ Engineer – Ultra-Low Latency | Quantitative Trading Firm | Up to $750,000 USD | New York

Durlston Partners is working with a quantitative trading firm in New York that’s hiring a C++ engineer for the systems at the center of its trading. You’ll work side by side with traders and researchers and take projects from first idea to production. The frameworks every trading application runs on will be yours to shape.

You’ll work closely with trading and research teams, testing live protocols and feeds, optimizing execution performance and improving fill rates.

• 4+ years of professional C++ experience
• A track record of shipping high-performance, latency-sensitive software
• A strong grasp of hardware architecture and how it affects latency
• Solid knowledge of network protocols and low-level network development
• Advanced understanding of OS internals and the Linux kernel
• x86 assembly experience is a strong plus

• Building ultra-low latency, high-throughput trading systems in C++ on Linux
• Benchmarking, profiling and tuning critical services for every bit of speed
• Pushing the core trading frameworks forward

You’ll join an engineering team with a strong reputation in the industry, and you’ll get the tools and the freedom to do your best work.