Senior С++ HFT core engineer

About the Role

As an HFT Core Engineer, you will design and build the core trading system from scratch. You will own the central execution engine, internal data model, and critical runtime components that define how strategies interact with markets. Your focus is deterministic behavior, minimal latency overhead, and correctness under real-world constraints.

You will work on:

• Design and implement the core trading engine: event loop, scheduling, and execution flow
• Define and build internal data models for order books, trades, positions, and state transitions
• Develop execution systems: order lifecycle management, smart order routing, risk checks, and position tracking
• Build treasury and funds routing logic: capital distribution across venues, internal netting, collateral management, and efficient movement of funds between accounts
• Ensure consistency and correctness of state under high load and partial failures
• Optimize critical paths for latency and throughput (CPU cache, memory layout, branch prediction)
• Collaborate with connectors and research teams to ensure clean interfaces and minimal overhead integration

You might thrive in this role if you have

• Experience building low-latency systems (HFT, real-time systems, or similar)
• 5+ years of professional experience with C++
• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory models, and performance optimization
• Experience designing complex systems from scratch with clear abstractions and minimal overhead
• Understanding of trading system components: order lifecycle, execution logic, and risk controls
• Experience with profiling and performance tuning at the CPU level

About the Team

We are building a research lab first — and a proprietary investment fund around it. The core belief is that long-term trading edge comes from a systematic ability to generate, test, and compound research insights faster and more rigorously than the market.

The goal is to remove legacy constraints and rethink financial market forecasting using modern systems, new hardware paradigms, and frontier AI. The goal is to tightly integrate execution, research, and infrastructure into a single coherent system.

For candidates who are not currently based in Amsterdam, we start working remotely and then initiate the relocation process.

What Your Journey Looks Like

• Intro call with Recruiter (30 minutes)
• Background check and theory (45 minutes)
• Live-coding (60 minutes)
• System design (60 minutes)
• Offer & Terms Discussion (30 minutes)