High Performance C++ Developer for Cryptocurrency Exchanges

3 days ago


Hong Kong, Central and Western District, Hong Kong SAR China SilverStrand Executive Search Limited Full time

About the Role

SilverStrand Executive Search Limited is seeking a highly skilled C++ Software Developer to join our team. As a key member of our technology department, you will play a crucial role in developing high-performance applications that connect to cryptocurrency exchanges and protocols.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Develop clean, maintainable, and performant C++ code on Linux, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
  • Become an expert in 2-3 exchange systems and cryptocurrency protocols, applying your knowledge to improve trading performance and request improvements to exchange systems.
  • Be accountable for deploying, monitoring, and managing connectivity solutions for the exchanges you've become an expert in, and help troubleshoot other exchange connectivity as required.
  • Optimise applications for microsecond latencies and efficient utilisation of messaging bandwidth.
  • Collaborate with traders and strategy developers to analyse logs and build tools to assist in execution performance analysis.
  • Develop ancillary trading system infrastructure in Python as needed.
  • Create tools to automate configuration, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of trading system components.
  • Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms, and daily office banter.

About You

  • A software engineer with 3+ years of experience in developing clean, maintainable, and performant code in C++ on Linux.
  • Experience profiling C++ code with cachegrind, valgrind, or other profiling tools.
  • A thorough understanding of network programming: UDP, TCP, TLS, Websockets.
  • Bonus points for candidates who have developed WebSocket execution for top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges and can articulate challenges faced.
  • You can balance delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities.
  • You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software, and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop.

What We Are Looking For

  • Experience with high-transaction, latency-optimised, distributed systems.
  • Experience configuring and monitoring Linux machines.
  • Experience with inter-process messaging using shared memory.
  • Experience with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS.
  • Experience developing high-performance exchange connectivity software for market making in traditional markets.


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