Job Description
Senior C++ Engineer - High-Performance Trading Systems
We're working with a global financial brokerage building mission-critical trading and analytics platforms used across international financial markets.
This is a hands-on engineering role for a senior C++ developer who enjoys working close to the metal - diagnosing crashes, optimising performance, and improving the resilience of Real Time systems.
What you'll be doing:Designing and building low-latency C++ applications
Investigating and resolving production crashes
Performing deep debugging (call stacks, memory issues, threading)
Optimising multi-threaded, Real Time systems
Collaborating with engineers, QA, DevOps, and business users
Mentoring junior developers and raising engineering standards
What we're looking for:
Strong commercial experience in modern C++ (11/14/17)
Background in performance-critical systems
Hands-on experience with debugging and crash analysis
Solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, and optimisation
Comfortable working in fast-paced, production-focused environments
Hybrid working, long-term platform ownership, and genuinely complex engineering challenges.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
