Senior Software Engineer, C++
Flow Traders is a global liquidity provider that delivers continuous liquidity in financial markets, with deep expertise in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The firm lowers overall trading costs for market participants by providing higher execution quality across global exchanges and trading platforms.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders is a technology-driven liquidity provider operating in global financial markets, with a particular focus on Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The company combines deep ETP expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong risk management to increase transparency and efficiency across the financial ecosystem, serving market participants such as exchanges and trading platforms across Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. Beyond its core trading business, Flow Traders operates a dedicated strategic capital investment unit that partners with companies aligned to its mission of transparency and efficiency in financial markets, and it runs the Flow Traders Foundation, a philanthropic initiative focused on fighting poverty.
Skills
About the Role
You'll lead the development and global rollout of the Core market data platform used across multiple focus areas including market data, research engineering, pricing, and strategies. You will design and implement high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization, and distribution, as well as their use in order execution and strategy infrastructure. You'll develop tools and frameworks that enable quants and technical traders to build, tune, and deploy data-driven systematic pricing and trading strategies. You'll own the full lifecycle of your components in a fast-paced, iterative environment, deploying, monitoring, profiling, and optimizing your code in production. You'll work closely with focus group engineers, quants, and technical traders to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on the platform's design and implementation.
Requirements
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 7+ years of post-graduation professional C++ software development experience
- Experience building low-latency market data ingestion, order execution, and algorithmic trading systems
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Experience in parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, reliable, and highly scalable C++ code
- Interest in extracting maximum performance from available hardware and software
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and global rollout of the Core market data platform
- Design and implement high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization, and distribution
- Build components used for order execution and strategy infrastructure
- Develop tools and frameworks for quants and technical traders to build, tune, and deploy trading strategies
- Deploy, monitor, profile, and optimize code in production
- Collaborate with focus group engineers, quants, and technical traders to refine requirements and iterate on platform design