Campus C++ Software Engineer (Intern)

Location: Singapore. Candidates should be interested in working in Singapore for their full-time job after graduation.

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, order entry, and order lifecycle management.
• Develop business-specific trading platforms supporting new businesses and markets.
• Build risk infrastructure with real-time performance monitoring and pre-trade and post-trade controls.
• Develop backtesting infrastructure for evaluating systematic strategies against large-scale historical market data.
• Produce high-throughput datasets and C++ compute engines for post-trade analysis across billions of orders and market data points.
• Own production systems by debugging incidents, tracing data through pipelines, and fixing root causes.

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 concepts, and operating systems.
• Solid debugging skills and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly.
• Comfort working with Linux, including command-line tools, debugging, and bare-metal environments.
• Clean production-quality coding, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and rigorous data analysis.

Nice to have

• System performance optimization experience.
• Python experience.
• Open-source contributions.
• Background in statistics or data analysis.
• Finance, economics, or competitive programming experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with trading, operations, finance, engineering, and research teams.
• Ship production code in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Use AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT with sound judgment about their output.
• Collaborate in a culture focused on innovation, intellectual honesty, mutual respect, and shared ownership.