Length: 9+ Months initial contract As a Senior C++ Engineer , you will be a member of a small, high performing team responsible for global derivatives algorithmic trading platform. Working closely with technologists, quants and traders to develop our in-house trading technology and optimise it to achieve market-leading performance and reliability. What You'll Be Working On You will play a key role in building and optimizing a global derivatives algorithmic trading platform, contributing across exchange connectivity, trading strategy implementation, platform reliability, and performance engineering.

Working closely with traders, quants, technologists and Trading Operations, you will help deliver high-performance trading systems capable of operating in demanding, low-latency environments. Write software that communicates with exchanges through their APIs, receiving market data and sending orders over the network in different protocols, such as FIX, WebSocket or requests. Ensure quality of software based on a set of testing suites, which you are expected to use, maintain and extend.

Implement these solutions using the provided exchange SDKs in different languages such as C++, Rust, Python and Typescript.



Acquire and develop the necessary trading knowledge to successfully translate the requirements into actual software implementation. Continuously improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine.

Enhance monitoring and observability in collaboration with the Trading Operations team. Investigate and resolve production issues such as crashes, unexpected business logic behaviour, and performance bottlenecks. Prepare for releases and deployments of new trading engine versions. 5+ years post-graduation professional C++ software development experience within the Financial industry. ~ Solid understanding of parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming to build distributed systems. ~ Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures. ~ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions. ~ Must have solid technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages. ~ Solid track record in application deployment best practices. ~ Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery.

Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude.

📌 Software Engineer (C++) - Full Time (Ontario)
🏢 La Fosse
📍 Ontario