C++ Engineer – Trading & Market Infrastructure

Hong Kong - Hong Kong

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Design develop and optimize low-latency C applications for financial and crypto trading environments
Build and maintain multithreaded concurrent systems handling high-throughput market data and order flows
Implement lock-free or low-lock data structures atomic operations and efficient synchronization mechanisms
Optimize end-to-end latency through memory management CPU cache utilization NUMA awareness and thread affinity
Develop real-time order management execution and matching components
Profile benchmark and tune systems to eliminate latency spikes contention and GC-like pauses
Ensure system reliability fault tolerance and correctness under extreme load and market volatility
Collaborate closely with trading quant product and infrastructure teams to deliver production-grade systems

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience in modern C (C11/14/17/20) in production environments
Deep understanding of multithreading concurrency and the C memory model
Proven experience building low-latency financial or crypto systems (e.g. trading engines market data handlers)
Expertise in lock-free programming atomics and synchronization primitives
Strong knowledge of Linux internals including scheduling CPU pinning NUMA and networking
Hands-on experience with performance profiling and debugging tools (perf gdb valgrind flame graphs)
Solid understanding of financial market microstructure or crypto exchange mechanics is a plus.

Job Description Design develop and optimize low-latency C applications for financial and crypto trading environmentsBuild and maintain multithreaded concurrent systems handling high-throughput market data and order flowsImplement lock-free or low-lock data structures atomic operations and efficient ...