C++ Developer – ETF Technology & Infrastructure
Qube Research & Technologies3 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance C++ applications and services supporting ETF platforms and infrastructure.
- Build reusable components for data processing, messaging, connectivity, workflow orchestration, and system integration.
- Develop reliable services handling real-time and reference data from internal and external sources.
- Create automated event-driven solutions for complex, multi-stage business workflows.
- Implement validation, auditability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
- Improve production-system performance, resilience, scalability, and observability.
- Integrate components with the broader technology and data ecosystem.
- Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and business stakeholders on maintainable solutions.
- Contribute to technical design, testing standards, code quality, and long-term platform strategy.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience developing performance-sensitive applications in modern C++.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and software architecture.
- Experience with multithreaded, concurrent, and event-driven programming.
- Strong experience developing and operating software on Linux.
- Experience building reliable production systems processing real-time or high-volume data.
- Experience designing APIs, messaging-based services, or integrations with external systems and data providers.
- Understanding of distributed systems, failure handling, testing, monitoring, and production support.
- Practical knowledge of the ETF ecosystem, including products, data, market structure, participants, conventions, and operational lifecycles.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Preferred experience in ETFs, asset management, investment banking, or financial markets.
- Preferred familiarity with ETF reference data, pricing data, lifecycle events, market data feeds, financial messaging standards, connectivity protocols, or middleware technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with Python, cloud infrastructure, containerisation, CI/CD, and modern observability tools.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $180,000 to $300,000 per year.
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses are included in QRT total compensation.
- Competitive benefits package.
About Qube Research & Technologies
Qube Research & Technologies is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that develops and trades data-driven strategies across liquid asset classes for institutional investors. The firm manages client capital and proprietary funds, earning management and performance fees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, it operates with offices in 16 locations worldwide.