C++ Developer – Trading Team – Sydney Oxford Knight Sydney

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a agile engineer skilled in C++ on Linux to join one of their growing quant trading teams.

You'll collaborate extensively with traders and technologists to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the team's infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work; technology is viewed as crucial to the firm's continued success. The successful C++ Software Engineer will be passionate about development, and enjoy solving difficult technical problems in a rapid-paced and energetic setting. In return, you will be exposed to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data.

Requirements
3+ years' experience in C / C++ development, including low-level and high-level optimization




Fantastic instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs; engineering for maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
Solid experience of working on a Linux platform
Self-starter who can work independently and is able to drive a project from inception through delivery
Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Nice to Have

Experience in:
Python or a willingness to pick it up quickly
Distributed systems, multithreading and/or operating systems
Extremely low-latency systems or dealing with exchange market data
Competitive base salary & bonus
Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes
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📌 C++ Developer – Trading Team – Sydney New South Wales (Australia)
🏢 Oxford Knight
📍 Australia