Forward Role Recruitment

Senior Software Engineer (C++)—Low Latency Crypto Trading | Dubai or Remote

Microseconds are for amateurs. My client, a Dubai-based crypto HFT trading firm, lives and dies in nanoseconds.

They're building and optimising the guts of a live trading system: market data, exchange connectivity into crypto venues, and the algos that actually pull the trigger. If you've spent your career shaving nanos off a hot path and you get genuinely annoyed when someone calls 50 microseconds "fast," keep reading.

What you'll actually be doing

• Building and maintaining market data + exchange connectivity to crypto exchanges
• Developing and extending live trading algorithms
• Optimising the trading system for micros/nanos — not a KPI, a religion
• Leading technical initiatives end to end, requirements through deployment
• Working across teams without being precious about your code

What you need to bring

• 8+ years in C++ (10+ total software development experience)
• Proven form in high-load, low-latency systems, not "worked near one," actually built one
• Strong grip on design patterns, data structures, algorithms
• Network protocol fluency, Websockets/FIX/Kafka exposure is a bonus, not a blocker
• Financial markets or HFT background; trading strategy dev experience is a nice-to-have
• Debugging instincts sharp enough to hunt down the nasty, intermittent, "only happens in prod" bugs
• Comfortable leading, either now or ready to grow into leading a distributed team
• System-level or network performance tuning chops
• An appetite for eventually leading a remote-friendly dev team

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary + performance bonus
• Flexible hours, actual work-life balance
• A proper office in Dubai, not a co-working desk with a ping pong table
• A multicultural, fast-moving team in one of the genuinely fastest-growing corners of finance
• Corporate "workations," yes, actual trips, not a Zoom background of a beach