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Senior C++ Engineer

Ref: JO-2503-351186

  • Environment: In-office
  • Contract Type: Permanent
  • Starts: 2026-03-04
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C++ Risk – Trading Systems Engineer – Sydney CBD

The Company

You will be working for a market leader in the electronic trading space who attribute their success to their elite tech teams. This role sits within the National Risk team and is responsible for delivering highly available applications used by the traders and Risk Committee for real-time market risk and other analysis.

Your role will involve:

Analysis, design and development of C++ risk applications in a capital markets environment.

Working on complex software including a combination of user-interfaces and server-side systems.

Working closely with the traders, compliance and technology teams to provide innovative solutions

Taking projects through the entire software development cycle from requirements gathering to production release.

Continuous improvement of the capability of the Risk team and applications (through technology, automation and other means).

What makes you a good fit:

Solid knowledge and experience of derivatives and Greeks. Ideally with equity/commodity derivatives product knowledge.

In excess of 5 years’ experience as a C++ engineer

Experience with: design, profiling, OO, multi-threading, user-interface development on both the client & server-side.

Experience working on risk, quantitative or trading systems development.

Experience interacting with traders, compliance and other software developers.

Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in a technical or related discipline.

If this role has caught your attention and sounds like something you would like to explore further, please reach out to me: Steve – 0458435331, sbielby@welovesalt.com

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