# Senior Software Engineer, C++ (Market Data)

Flow Traders Hong Kong is looking for a Senior C++ Software Engineer to lead the next-generation architecture of the market data and execution platforms that power our fully systematic trading. We don't treat market data as plumbing - for us it's a source of alpha, where feed handling, order book construction, and a deep understanding of exchange microstructure are themselves a competitive edge. We're looking for a senior individual contributor who has lived this philosophy in a proprietary or systematic trading environment and can squeeze every nanosecond out of the path from wire to strategy. As a senior individual contributor, you'll be working on the Core Platform that underpins quantitative research, pricing, strategy development, and execution across hundreds of venues. You'll work in a tight, iterative loop with quants and technical traders, applying deep expertise in modern C++, OS internals, CPU and memory architecture, lock-free concurrency, and low-latency networking to push our systems toward state-of-the-art performance, robustness, and observability. What you will do: Design and implement high-performance components for market data ingestion, normalization, and distri

- **Id**: 1019914
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flow-traders-senior-software-engineer-c-market-data-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hong Kong
- **Countries**: HK
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T02:57:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:08:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2986
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure, Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

## Company

- **Id**: 54503
- **Name**: Flow Traders
- **Domain**: flowtraders.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flow-traders>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 33
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.273
- **Repost share**: 0.121
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 57
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T03:51:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 61
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.814
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 57
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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