C++ Engineer x2
McGregor Boyall Associates Ltd.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Algorithmic Trading
C++
Software Debugging
DevOps
Memory Management
Multithreading
Real Time Systems
Concurrency
Job description
We're working with a global financial brokerage building mission-critical trading and analytics platforms used across international financial markets. This is a hands-on engineering role for a senior C++ developer who enjoys working close to the metal - diagnosing crashes, optimising performance, and improving the resilience of real-time systems. What you'll be doing:
- Designing and building low-latency C++ applications
- Investigating and resolving production crashes
- Performing deep debugging (call stacks, memory issues, threading)
- Optimising multi-threaded, real-time systems
- Collaborating with engineers, QA, DevOps, and business users
- Mentoring junior developers and raising engineering standards
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience in modern C++ (11/14/17)
- Background in performance-critical systems
- Hands-on experience with debugging and crash analysis
- Solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, and optimisation
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, production-focused environments Hybrid working, long-term platform ownership, and genuinely complex engineering challenges. McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.