C++ Software Engineer (Commodities)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a proprietary financial trading firm using its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to global financial markets and hedge commodity exposure.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of the core C++ trading platform across execution, order management, market data, pricing, and risk.
• Design and maintain direct exchange connectivity, including order-entry gateways and feed handlers for CME, ICE, and other futures and commodities venues.
• Optimize systems at microsecond and nanosecond scales using lock-free data structures, cache-aware design, kernel-bypass networking, CPU pinning, and NUMA tuning.
• Collaborate with trading desks, quants, and developers on pricing, execution algorithms, feature development, and complex production issues.
• Build high-performance components for simulation and live trading.
• Own systems end to end, including design, testing, deployment, and production support in a live trading environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional C++ development experience with modern C++17/20, templates, move semantics, memory models, and concurrency.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded systems for quantitative trading, ideally at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, or exchange.
• Knowledge of exchange operations, order types, matching-engine behavior, market microstructure, and native exchange protocols such as iLink/MDP, ICE protocols, FIX, or SBE.
• Direct experience with futures or commodities markets.
• Systems-level expertise with Linux/Unix, Git, TCP/UDP, multicast networking, kernel-bypass stacks such as Onload, VMA, or DPDK, and performance profiling.
• Experience with distributed systems, large datasets, SQL/NoSQL or tick databases, and scientific computing with Python, NumPy, or pandas.

Nice to have

• Experience with energy markets, including crude oil, refined products, or natural gas, and with swaps.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or another technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on senior role with broad ownership across the trading stack.
• Small cross-functional team working directly with trading desks, quants, and developers.
• Production code is deployed into systems trading real markets.
• Inclusive environment and equal opportunity employment.