Lead Engineer (C++) HFT Trading Systems

C++ Lead Engineer | HFT Trading Systems | London | Up to £220,000 + Bonus

Albert Bow is working with a systematic trading firm building high-performance, latency-critical systems powering global strategies. They’re looking for a senior C++ engineer to lead a segment of their trading infra team , taking ownership of architecture, optimisation, and system design while collaborating across trading, quant research, and infra.

This is a full-stack systems engineering role: from kernel tuning and memory models to live strategy deployment and technical mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build performance-critical, low-latency trading systems in modern C++
• Lead technical strategy, code reviews, and engineering standards across the team
• Optimise across the stack: CPU cache usage, memory layout, NIC tuning, networking
• Translate quant research into robust, de...