C++ Trading Platform Developer

Wintermute helps you trade digital assets by providing algorithmic liquidity across exchanges and OTC markets.

Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026

Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4AG, United Kingdom
About Wintermute

Wintermute helps traders and institutions access digital asset liquidity through algorithmic market making and OTC services. Users can trade various tokens, access derivatives markets, and execute large orders without market impact. Wintermute provides deep liquidity across centralized and decentralized platforms.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

Develop and improve a global trading platform covering real-time data capture, order entry, exchange connectivity, monitoring, performance, scalability, and reliability. Write and optimize C++ and Python code on Linux and diagnose low-level issues in high-performance trading systems.

Requirements

  • Strong C++ skills
  • Experience inspecting C++ standard libraries and low-level behavior
  • Experience writing client-server network applications
  • Experience writing and optimizing high-performance code
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Understanding of networking, CPU and memory models, and assembly language

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the global trading platform
  • Implement real-time data capture and order entry systems
  • Ensure robust connectivity to multiple exchanges
  • Design and implement monitoring and fail-safe systems
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and resource usage
  • Write and maintain C++ and Python code on Linux

Benefits

  • Team meals, festive celebrations, and company team-building events
  • Office amenities including table tennis, foosball, and a team breakout area
  • Personalized desk configurations
  • Pension
  • Private health insurance
  • Flexible working arrangements with support for working from home
  • UK work permits and relocation assistance