We're partnered with a global quantitative trading firm building the critical platforms that power high-frequency trading across international financial markets.
As part of a high-impact engineering team, you'll develop the systems that sit beneath the trading platform — supporting real-time risk controls, reference data, trade lifecycle infrastructure, and trading integrity. This is a hands-on C++ role offering end-to-end ownership, technical influence, and the prospect to work on highly scalable, low-latency systems that directly support live trading.
You'll collaborate with engineers, traders, and infrastructure teams across the business while solving challenging engineering problems where performance, reliability, and resilience are critical.
What You'll Work On
Designing and developing high-performance C++ trading platform infrastructure
Building low-latency, real-time, and high-throughput distributed services
Developing platforms supporting trade lifecycle, reference data, and risk systems
Owning projects from architecture and implementation through to production support
Driving platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence




Improving deployment processes and engineering automation
Collaborating with trading, infrastructure, and software engineering teams across the business
Performing code reviews, testing, and continuous platform improvements
Mentoring engineers and contributing to technical best practices
Required Skills
3+ years experience building and operating production software systems
Excellent computer science fundamentals including algorithms, operating systems, networking, and data structures
Experience across the full software development lifecycle
Experience with Python or another scripting language
Strong problem-solving skills with experience delivering complex technical solutions
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have
Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, or real-time systems
Knowledge of distributed systems, observability, and CI/CD pipelines
Locations
Sydney
Compensation
Highly competitive base salary plus performance-based bonus
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