Senior C++ developer

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Project description

Large US hedge fund is looking for experienced C++ developers with some finance experience to help work on our global trading systems and to assist in porting them to a new distributed platform. This is a mixed code base of legacy C++98 and modern C++17/20, that is looking to move from a large monolithic system to a distributed platform.

Responsibilities

• The trading systems require very low latency and optimized C++ that is robust and well tested.

• The team runs on a weekly sprint process, with daily stand ups over zoom with developers from around the world.

• We are C++ fanatics, using git, Jira, Gitlab, cmake, Nix, gcc, clang, etc.

• We love people who like to be close to metal and understand how computers really work under the hood, such as what a cache miss is, what a TLB miss is, what the costs of branch misprediction are, how to avoid kernel context switches, etc.

• We also love people who enjoy modern financial markets, and want to make an impact on how they function, driving the world towards every increasing efficiency.

• We like studying programming languages and their evolution, knowing where C++23 and C++26 are going, and generally keeping informed about technology.

Skills

• Must have

• C++98 through C++11 minimum, prefer experience with 14, 17, and 20

• Strong algorithms and software engineering skills

• Good written and spoken English

• Ability to refactor code safely and efficiently

• Strong unit testing skills

• Linux

• gdb

• Willingness to do what is needed to get the job done

• Humility, and an ability to take code review constructive criticism well

• Willingness to perform code reviews for others in a constructive manner

• Nice to have

• Knowledge of various open source libraries such as Boost, gtest, Abseil, DPDK, etc

• cmake

• Trading systems experience with equities, futures, FX, or commodities

• Experience with market protocols such as FIX, ITCH, or OUCH

• SBE

• Experience processing market data

• Experience with message buses such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Aeron

• Distributed systems experience

• Heavy template meta programming, particularly in modern C++17 and beyond style

• CI/CD and Devops experience, especially with Gitlab

• Python or Java exposure

• Other

• Languages

• English: B2 Upper Intermediate

• Seniority

• Senior

• George Town, Malaysia

• Req. VR-124169

• C/C++

• BCM Industry

• 02/10/2026

• Req. VR-124169

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