Lead C| Engineer

  • Category: IT Engineer & Developer Jobs
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Job Type: Full Time / Part Time
  • Salary: Estimated: $ 23K to 24K
  • Published on: 2025/09/21

Job highlights
Identified by Google from the original job post
Qualifications
7+ Years experience working on Low Latency Trading Systems capable of executing trades in microseconds or even nanoseconds
Excellent Low-latency C++
Bachelor in Computer Science or Similar
Benefits
Budget: ~$750k (as always, this is negotiable)
Responsibilities
You will be tasked with leading your own team in the design, implementation, and deployment of their next-generation market connectivity framework, delivering a scalable high-throughput, low-latency C++ platform
60% Hands-on coding and systems design
40% Project management and team management
Your team will be tasked with working on all aspects of the trading system
Write a lot of asynchronous, template, and thread-safety code
Develop highly optimized market access and market data solutions, ensuring reliable, deterministic event streams for quantitative research
Create extendable frameworks for seamless expansion into emerging markets, including crypto
Collaborate closely with traders and quants to identify critical problems and guide innovation efforts
Job description
Lead Low-latency C++ Engineer - Prop Trading ~$750k

HFT client is hiring a lead C++ engineer to spearhead the exchange connectivity for their newly built FPGAA accelerated trading system, capable of meeting nanosecond "tick to trade" targets.

Role:

You will be tasked with leading your own team in the design, implementation, and deployment of their next-generation market connectivity framework, delivering a scalable high-throughput, low-latency C++ platform.
• 60% Hands-on coding and systems design
• 40% Project management and team management

Team Responsibilities:

Your team will be tasked with working on all aspects of the trading system
• Write a lot of asynchronous, template, and thread-safety code
• Develop highly optimized market access and market data solutions, ensuring reliable, deterministic event streams for quantitative research
• Create extendable frameworks for seamless expansion into emerging markets, including crypto
• Collaborate closely with traders and quants to identify critical problems and guide innovation efforts

Requirements:
• 7+ Years experience working on Low Latency Trading Systems capable of executing trades in microseconds or even nanoseconds.
• Excellent Low-latency C++
• Bachelor in Computer Science or Similar

Budget: ~$750k (as always, this is negotiable)

For more information please email xander@durlstonpartners.com. Additionally, if you would like to be kept up to date with all of our live roles, please follow Durlston Partners.


Company Name: Durlston Partners

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