C++ Market Data Engineer

Salary: £41,000 - 71,500 per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years leading engineering teams
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with market data systems
• Experience supporting research or execution workflows across more than one asset class
• A track record of building production systems that remain highly available
• Low-latency C++ development experience
• Experience with Refinitiv or Bloomberg APIs is a plus, as is comparable enterprise market data stack experience

Responsibilities:

• Architect our next-generation market data platform
• Ingest streaming and historical data from vendor consolidation platforms and internal APIs
• Build real-time processing and derivation engines, including bars and NBBO, that are fast, resilient, and recoverable
• Develop SDKs and platform interfaces so specialist teams can plug in their own derived-data calculations
• Hire and mentor a team of developers and analysts
• Own the platform roadmap directly with investment teams and translate their needs into production systems
• Lead a build-and-lead function rather than a maintenance role

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support
• C++

More:

We are a global multi-strategy hedge fund hiring into our Data Technology team for a Manager, Market Data Engineering role. We support investment teams across Equities, Macro, Commodities, and Credit by building systems that capture, redistribute, derive, and serve real-time and historical market data. This is a build-and-lead opportunity with a base location in Chicago, London, or New York, and the US base range is USD 225,000 to 275,000 plus bonus and benefits.

last updated 37 week of 2026