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Senior and Middle C++ Software Engineer- Must Have HFTExperience - Remote or relocate to Dubai All paid for
Forward Role Recruitment · Dubai
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Senior Software Engineer (C++)—Low Latency Crypto Trading | Dubai or Remote
Microseconds are for amateurs. My client, a Dubai-based crypto HFT trading firm, lives and dies in nanoseconds.
They're building and optimising the guts of a live trading system: market data, exchange connectivity into crypto venues, and the algos that actually pull the trigger. If you've spent your career shaving nanos off a hot path and you get genuinely annoyed when someone calls 50 microseconds "fast," keep reading.
What you'll actually be doing
- Building and maintaining market data + exchange connectivity to crypto exchanges
- Developing and extending live trading algorithms
- Optimising the trading system for micros/nanos — not a KPI, a religion
- Leading technical initiatives end to end, requirements through deployment
- Working across teams without being precious about your code
What you need to bring
- 8+ years in C++ (10+ total software development experience)
- Proven form in high-load, low-latency systems, not "worked near one," actually built one
- Strong grip on design patterns, data structures, algorithms
- Network protocol fluency, Websockets/FIX/Kafka exposure is a bonus, not a blocker
- Financial markets or HFT background; trading strategy dev experience is a nice-to-have
- Debugging instincts sharp enough to hunt down the nasty, intermittent, "only happens in prod" bugs
- Comfortable leading, either now or ready to grow into leading a distributed team
Bonus points if you've got
- Kernel bypass / DPDK experience
- System-level or network performance tuning chops
- An appetite for eventually leading a remote-friendly dev team
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary + performance bonus
- Flexible hours, actual work-life balance
- A proper office in Dubai, not a co-working desk with a ping pong table
- A multicultural, fast-moving team in one of the genuinely fastest-growing corners of finance
- Corporate "workations," yes, actual trips, not a Zoom background of a beach
If "fast" to you means single-digit microseconds and you've got the C++ scar tissue to prove it, message me. Let's talk.
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