Market Making Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Market Making Software Engineer to design, build, and optimise production trading systems that operate across multiple asset classes. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high‑performance environments and enjoys working close to the business with traders and quants.

You will play a key part in developing next‑generation market‑making platforms, improving latency, enhancing robustness, and ensuring peak performance in rapidly changing market conditions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop low‑latency trading components used in market‑making strategies.
• Build and maintain connectivity to exchanges, market data feeds, and execution gateways.
• Optimise system performance across throughput, latency, and reliability.
• Work closely with traders, quants, and researchers to translate strategy requirements into scalable software.
• Develop tools for monitoring, simulation, and real‑time risk insights.
• Ensure systems meet the highest standards of resilience, testing, and fault‑tolerance.
• Take ownership of production systems, including troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions and contribute to long‑term technical roadmaps.

Required Experience

• 3-7 years of professional experience building low-latency, high‑performance systems (ideally within trading, HFT, market making, or related domains).
• Expert knowledge in C++ (modern C++14/17/20) or Rust for performance‑critical components.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, memory management, and concurrency.
• Experience with exchange protocols (e.g., FIX, ITCH/OUCH, binary gateways) or market‑data systems.
• Proven experience profiling and optimising systems for nanosecond-microsecond performance.
• Strong Linux experience (kernel, networking, performance tuning).
• Experience working in real‑time, production‑critical systems.