Engineering Lead
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Job Location:
Amsterdam, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
C Lead Engineer HFT Trading Systems London or Remote (EU) Up to 220000 Bonus
Albert Bow is working with a systematic trading firm building high-performance latency-critical systems powering global strategies. Theyre looking for a senior C engineer to lead a segment of their trading infra team taking ownership of architecture optimisation and system design while collaborating across trading quant research and infra.
This is a full-stack systems engineering role: from kernel tuning and memory models to live strategy deployment and technical mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build performance-critical low-latency trading systems in modern C
- Lead technical strategy code reviews and engineering standards across the team
- Optimise across the stack: CPU cache usage memory layout NIC tuning networking
- Translate quant research into robust deployable code with full-stack awareness
- Mentor engineers and drive team-wide improvement in system design and debugging
- Coordinate closely with trading and quant research teams on feature delivery and infra upgrades
Requirements
- 6 years of professional C development (C17/20/23) with deep systems experience
- Proven leadership in engineering architecture technical direction mentoring
- Solid grasp of OS internals CPU architecture and systems-level performance
- Experience building fault-tolerant throughput-heavy applications
- Strong communication skills able to align across trading research and infra
Nice to Have
- Background in low-latency or high-frequency systems
- Python for scripting research pipelines or glue code
- Experience with networking (TCP UDP L1/L2 stack)
- Familiarity with x86 assembly memory barriers and CPU profiling
- Participation in CTFs or algorithmic programming contests (IOI ICPC Hashcode)
Whats on Offer
- Senior technical ownership in a lean high-impact trading team
- Up to 220000 base salary bonus
- Health insurance sports reimbursement tuition and training budget
- Flat team structure with direct access to CTO and trading leads
- Flexible workflow and remote setup across Europe
- Minimal process no red tape and full engineering autonomy
If this sounds like a fit send over your CV or reach out directly First meetings already underway.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Administrative Skills
- Facilities Management
- Biotechnology
- Creative Production
- Design And Estimation
- Architecture
