C++ Trading Systems Engineer

C++ Trading & Simulator Engineer | Quant Research Infrastructure | New York | Competitive Base + Bonus

Albert Bow is working with a growing systematic investment firm rebuilding and scaling the technology behind its quantitative research and trading operation. They are hiring a C++ engineer to work across simulation, backtesting, market data infrastructure and production trading systems, with close exposure to researchers and traders.

This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys performance-focused C++ but also wants exposure to the research side of systematic trading.

Responsibilities

• Build core infrastructure for quantitative research, simulation, backtesting and strategy deployment.
• Develop high-performance C++ systems for large-scale data processing and model computation.
• Improve data loading and transformation pipelines used across research workflows.
• Optimise systems for latency, throughput and scalability.
• Build tooling and automation around model training, evaluation and deployment.
• Work directly with researchers and traders to improve research productivity, simulation accuracy and live trading performance.
• Support and document production research and trading infrastructure.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional C++17/20 development experience.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency and numerical processing.
• Experience building or optimising low-latency, high-throughput production systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an ability to work on performance-critical infrastructure.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field.

Nice to Have

• Python development experience.
• Experience building alpha research or strategy infrastructure.
• Data pipeline development experience.
• Previous exposure to quantitative trading or financial systems.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive base salary plus performance bonus.
• Direct exposure to quantitative researchers and traders.
• Opportunity to work across both research infrastructure and production trading systems.
• Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependants.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits and weekly company meals.