Senior C++ Engineer

Senior C++ Engineer

April 21, 2026 0 25

OXBO are partnered with a Dubai-based investment firm with a focus on innovative, founder-led businesses shaping the global sports & technology industries. They diversify in cutting-edge real estate projects and other future-defining sectors.

They’re now building out a proprietary algorithmic trading business focused on the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency markets. Their core activities involve designing, developing, and deploying automated trading strategies across major exchanges with a focus on highly-liquid spot and derivatives instruments. We are building a technology-driven trading platform that emphasizes speed, reliability, and scalability.

They are seeking a highly experienced C++ Software Engineer with a deep background in low-latency trading systems, market-making infrastructure, and crypto exchange connectivity. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building ultra-efficient, high-performance, real-time systems for financial markets.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the technical roadmap, architecture decisions, and best engineering practices.
  • Design and develop high-performance, low-latency trading systems using modern C++ (C++17/20 or later).
  • Optimize system performance, including latency reduction, throughput enhancements, lock-free programming, and efficient memory management.
  • Build and maintain market-making algorithms, order routing logic, reference dataand inventory/risk management components.
  • Develop and maintain connectivity to cryptocurrency exchanges, including FIX, WebSocket, REST, and proprietary protocols
  • Implement real-time market data ingestion, normalization, and processing pipelines.
  • Collaborate closely with quant researchers, traders, and DevSecOps engineers to translate strategy requirements into production-ready software.
  • Conduct code reviews, testing, simulation, and profiling to ensure stability and speed under high load.
  • Diagnose and resolve production issues in live high-frequency environments.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 10+ years of professional experience in C++ systems development.
  • Extensive experience with low-latency, high-throughput, real-time systems in financial markets (HFT, market making, prop trading, or similar).

Demonstrated expertise in:

  • Lock-free and concurrent programming
  • Multi-threading, CPU architecture, and instruction-level optimization
  • Network programming (TCP/UDP, kernel-bypass technologies a plus)
  • Memory optimization and custom allocators
  • Strong understanding of market microstructure, order books, and market-making workflows.
  • Hands-on experience integrating with crypto exchanges and handling real-time
  • market data feeds.
  • Familiarity with Linux systems programming, performance tuning, and low-level debugging tools.
  • Experience working in a latency-sensitive production environment
Tech: Hedge Funds and Proprietary Trading
Contract Types: Perm
Locations: UAE Dubai

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