Campus C++ Software Engineer (Intern) (Fintech)

Location: Shanghai, China

Company

hirify.global develops research-driven technology and trading infrastructure for global financial markets.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain live trading systems connecting strategies to exchanges, including market data handling and order entry.
• Develop business-specific trading platforms and real-time risk infrastructure with pre-trade and post-trade controls.
• Build back testing infrastructure for evaluating systematic strategies against large-scale historical market data.
• Produce high-throughput datasets and C++ compute engines for post-trade analysis.
• Debug production incidents, trace data through full pipelines, and fix root causes while owning deployed systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in C++ and hands-on experience with large-scale systems.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, networking, and operating systems.
• Solid debugging skills and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly.
• Comfort working with Linux, command-line tools, debugging, and bare-metal environments.
• Interest in working in an APAC office for a full-time role after graduation.

Nice to have

• System performance optimization experience.
• Python experience, open-source contributions, or a background in statistics and data analysis.
• Finance, economics, or competitive programming experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of trading and technology in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with trading, operations, finance, engineering, and research teams.
• Use AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT with sound judgment and verification.
• Take ownership of production systems and contribute to research-driven financial technology.