Lead Trading Systems Engineer

Lead Trading Systems Engineer | C++ | Trading, Research & Simulation Infrastructure | New York / Stamford | Competitive Base + Bonus

Albert Bow is working with a quantitative investment firm looking for a senior engineer to lead the evolution of its core trading, research and simulation platform. This is a broad technical ownership role spanning low-latency execution, OMS integration, large-scale market data, simulation, backtesting and distributed compute.

You’ll work directly with quantitative researchers and engineers to design infrastructure used across equities, futures, fixed income and derivatives, while helping set the longer-term technical direction of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop high-performance trading, research and simulation infrastructure.
• Build out a scalable multi-asset backtesting and simulation platform.
• Develop and improve OMS and execution system integrations.
• Optimise large-scale market data processing for latency, throughput and scalability.
• Improve time-series storage, caching and distributed computation.
• Analyse existing systems, identify bottlenecks and drive performance improvements.
• Work closely with researchers to accurately model transaction costs, execution behaviour and market dynamics.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction across major infrastructure projects.

Requirements

• 6+ years building high-performance trading, simulation, research or comparable systems on Linux.
• Expert-level C++17/20, Java or Python, with a strong preference for C++.
• Deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, concurrency and systems architecture.
• Experience building scalable, low-latency and high-throughput production systems.
• Understanding of market microstructure, execution systems and backtesting or simulation.
• Experience with OMS, execution or similar trading infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with researchers and engineers.

Nice to Have

• Financial markets or quantitative trading experience.
• Experience across multiple asset classes.
• Strong Python alongside C++ for research and infrastructure tooling.

What’s on Offer

• Senior technical ownership across core trading and research infrastructure.
• Competitive base salary plus performance bonus.
• Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependants.
• Collaborative engineering environment with close interaction between technology and research.
• Opportunity to shape the next generation of the firm’s simulation and execution platform.