C++ Engineer - Trading Platforms

Position Overview

• Develop and enhance systematic trading capabilities within the trading platform.
• Translate trader and quant requirements into production-grade trading algorithms.
• Build trading domain expertise to effectively map business logic into robust software design.
• Improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine through continuous engineering best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents, including crashes, unexpected business-logic behavior, and latency/performance bottlenecks.
• Support release preparation and deployments for new trading engine versions.

Core Responsibilities

• Own development of the systematic trading framework and core services.
• Design, develop, and support APAC and cross-regional systematic trading strategies.
• Build expertise in APAC market micro-structure to customize systematic trading modules for regional market characteristics and regulatory requirements.

Core Skills & Qualifications

• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of post-graduation professional C++ development experience at a buy-side proprietary trading firm.
• Strong ability to write clean, reliable, maintainable, and highly scalable code.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
• Strong performance mindset (latency, throughput, resource utilization) and ability to optimize for available hardware/software.
• Ability to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.