Our client, a high-frequency trading firm based in Dubai, is hiring a Quant Developer to join its growing trading technology team.
$200,000–$300,000 per year
The role sits at the intersection of quant research, trading logic, and high-performance C++ engineering. You’ll work directly with senior traders and researchers, taking ownership of strategy code from research idea through production.
Own and develop production trading strategy code
Translate quantitative models and research into high-performance C++
Design and implement new systematic trading strategies
Profile, refactor, and optimize existing live strategies
Identify and eliminate latency bottlenecks across the trading stack
Optimize multithreaded and latency-critical components
Reduce tick-to-trade latency and improve execution performance
Improve the workflow between research, engineering, and production
Monitor live strategies and investigate performance issues
Strong modern C++ (17/20)
Experience building high-performance, low-latency systems
Strong knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, algorithms, and data structures
Experience with financial markets, quantitative trading, or HFT
Solid understanding of statistics, probability, and quantitative methods
Experience translating quantitative models into production systems
Strong profiling, debugging, and performance optimization skills
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or another quantitative field
Lock-free programming and advanced concurrency
TCP/UDP, multicast, FIX, and exchange connectivity
Python and Bash
Prometheus / Grafana
AWS or other cloud infrastructure for research and backtesting
Experience building tools for strategy, P&L, execution, or latency analysis
You’ll be the engineer dedicated to trading strategy code, with significant ownership from implementation through production.
You’ll work closely with experienced traders and quant researchers in an environment where microseconds matter and your work has a direct impact on trading performance and revenue.
$200,000–$300,000 per year
+ bonus
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