Senior Trading Systems Engineer

About the Company and Role

We are hiring a Senior Trading Systems Engineer for an international proprietary trading firm in Singapore.

You will work directly with traders and quantitative teams on high-performance, latency-sensitive systems that sit at the core of the trading business. The scope spans market data, exchange connectivity, execution, risk, and simulation, with ownership from design through production.

We are looking for a highly hands-on engineer with deep experience in institutional Traditional Finance market-making/HFT and strong low-level systems expertise.

Location: Singapore, full-time, office-based.

The company supports international relocation for successful candidates.

We are offering:

• Competitive gross compensation from $200,000 per year, depending on your experience and expertise, plus a discretionary performance bonus;
• Direct collaboration with traders and quantitative teams;
• Broad technical ownership across business-critical trading infrastructure;
• The opportunity to build and optimise low-latency systems across multiple parts of the trading lifecycle.

What kind of qualifications we are looking for:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on work with low-latency or high-performance trading systems;
• Deep production experience with C++ is essential; Rust experience is highly relevant;
• Strong experience in institutional Traditional Finance market-making/HFT, ideally within a buy-side or proprietary trading environment;
• Experience integrating with exchange/broker APIs, order management systems, pricing and risk engines, and smart order routers;
• Hands-on experience across several areas of trading infrastructure, such as market data and feed handlers, exchange connectivity, order and execution management, pricing and risk, or backtesting and simulation;
• Strong low-latency performance tuning, profiling, monitoring, and debugging skills;
• Strong end-to-end ownership and the ability to work closely with traders and quantitative teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build and optimise low-latency, high-throughput trading systems;
• Develop market data, exchange connectivity, and execution infrastructure;
• Contribute to order management, pricing, risk, and simulation systems;
• Work directly with traders and quantitative teams to bring trading requirements into production;
• Own systems from design through production performance, reliability, and ongoing optimisation.

Nice-to-have Requirements:

• Experience across Equities, Options, Futures, or FX.

Ready to take ownership of mission-critical trading infrastructure and build systems where engineering decisions directly impact trading performance? Join a highly technical team at the core of a global proprietary trading business.

Apply via our website or reach out to our recruiter on Telegram - @zhuldyzme