C++ Software Engineer

The Colo Engineering and Performance team owns system-level application performance in our colos. It provides developers with crucial insight and recommendations for improvement, as well as the information required to determine the most effective hardware and operating system configurations for each site.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Developing high-performance, low-latency systems

Collaborating closely with quantitative researchers and developers

Designing and optimising rapid trading systems end-to-end

Applying low-level systems programming and optimisation using languages such as C, C++ or similar

Financial market knowledge is not required

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Expertise in low-level systems programming and optimisation for extremely low-latency, high-throughput network applications

Ability to analyse and improve application performance using hardware counters and other profiling tools

Deep understanding of modern computer architecture including cache hierarchies of modern processors.

Experience with fast-packet processing in user space and familiarity with kernel-bypass techniques such as Solarflare OpenOnload, TPCDirect, ef_vi, InfiniBand verbs, DPDK or similar

Experience optimising performance in managed runtime languages such as C# is desirable

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business ) and dedicated barista bar

35 days’ annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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