C++ Engineer - Exchange Connectivity - Bonhill Partners
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We’re looking for a high-calibre C++ Engineer to join our technology team at a leading market making firm.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and optimising the infrastructure that connects our trading systems directly to global financial markets.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing and developing low-latency C++ systems for electronic trading
- Building and maintaining exchange connectivity and market access infrastructure
- Working with exchange protocols, binary feeds and order-entry gateways
- Optimising networking, latency, throughput and system performance
- Troubleshooting complex production issues across the trading stack
- Working closely with traders, quantitative researchers and infrastructure engineers
- Integrating with major exchanges and liquidity venues globally
What we’re looking for
- Strong modern C++ engineering experience
- Proven experience in market access, exchange connectivity or electronic trading
- Deep understanding of exchange protocols and order-book mechanics
- Experience with FIX, binary protocols and/or proprietary exchange APIs
- Strong knowledge of Linux, networking and systems programming
- Understanding of low-latency techniques, performance optimisation and concurrency
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly performance-sensitive environment
Particularly valuable
Experience with kernel/network optimisation, NICs, multicast, TCP/UDP, packet processing, FPGA acceleration or colocation environments would be highly advantageous.
If you’re a C++ engineer who understands not just how to write fast software, but how electronic markets actually connect and operate, we’d like to hear from you.