Job Description

We're partnered with a global quantitative trading firm building the critical platforms that power high-frequency trading across international financial markets.

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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.

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You'll collaborate with engineers, traders, and infrastructure teams across the business while solving challenging engineering problems where performance, reliability, and resilience are critical.

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What You'll Work On

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Designing and developing high-performance C++ trading platform infrastructure
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Building low-latency, real-time, and high-throughput distributed services
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Developing platforms supporting trade lifecycle, reference data, and risk systems
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Owning projects from architecture and implementation through to production support
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Driving platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence
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Improving deployment processes and engineering automation
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Collaborating with trading, infrastructure, and software engineering teams across the business
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Performing code reviews, testing, and continuous platform improvements
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Mentoring engineers and contributing to technical best practices
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Required Skills

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3+ years experience building and operating production software systems
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Excellent computer science fundamentals including algorithms, operating systems, networking, and data structures
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Experience across the full software development lifecycle
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Experience with Python or another scripting language
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Robust problem-solving skills with experience delivering complex technical solutions
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Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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Nice to Have

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Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, or real-time systems
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Knowledge of distributed systems, observability, and CI/CD pipelines
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Locations

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Sydney
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Compensation

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Highly competitive base salary plus performance-based bonus
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📌 C++ Engineer Critical Engineering New South Wales
🏢 Tribus
📍 New South Wales