Low-Latency Engineer- World-Leading Prop Trading Fund
Oxford Knight
Application
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Posted: 14-Aug-24
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full-time
Internal Number: 20505039
About the Position
Our client is looking for a Software Engineer with experience in high-performance, low-latency systems. You'll work closely with quant researchers and developers, taking a holistic approach to design and optimise fast-trading systems.
Systems are built primarily in OCaml with only small amounts of C and C++, but you don't need any experience with OCaml (we can teach it to you) or knowledge of the financial markets. The most important qualification is experience with low-level systems programming and optimisation, whether it is in C, C++, or any other language.
About You
Experience with low-level systems programming and optimisation, and working on network applications that require extremely low latency and high throughput
Can understand, interpret, and improve application performance through hardware performance counters and other profiling tools
Has a thorough understanding of modern computer architecture and can talk to others about it; for example, can you describe modern x86 AMD and Intel cache hierarchies?
Some experience with fast-packet processing in user space and common kernel-bypass implementations would be ideal (such as Solarflare OpenOnload / TCPDirect / ef_vi, Exablaze, InfiniBand verbs, DPDK)
Experience working around the performance challenges of languages with a managed runtime (such as Java or C#) and familiarity with a typed functional language are a plus
Fluency in English required.
Contact If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk (+44) 07885 545220 linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
