Crypto Market Access Lead - C++

The role

This person will own the architecture and technical direction of crypto market connectivity. They will lead the design, development, and production support of low-latency trading gateways and market data handlers for crypto venues.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and technical direction of crypto market connectivity.
• Lead the design, development, validation, deployment and production support of low-latency trading gateways and market data handlers.
• Oversee market data ingestion, sequencing, normalisation, order book construction and downstream distribution.
• Own exchange integrations, connectivity upgrades and venue onboardings.
• Develop frameworks for data quality monitoring, gap detection, reconciliation, recovery and replay.
• Drive improvements in latency, throughput, resilience and operational stability.
• Partner with traders, quantitative researchers and developers to deliver reliable market data and execution connectivity.
• Scale connectivity systems to support new exchanges, digital assets, spot and derivatives products.
• Work closely with infrastructure, operations, compliance and risk teams.
• Mentor and develop engineers.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience building low-latency trading infrastructure.
• Strong experience in crypto exchange connectivity or digital asset trading systems.
• Expert-level C++ development experience on Linux.
• Strong Python and bash scripting skills.
• Deep expertise in exchange trading gateways, market data feed handlers or connectivity platforms.
• Strong understanding of crypto exchange architecture and connectivity across major venues such as Binance, OKX, Bybit etc.
• Experience with exchange APIs and protocols, including WebSocket, REST, FIX and binary protocols.
• Experience designing and implementing real-time distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of networking, multithreading, concurrency and memory optimisation.
• Strong understanding of market data sequencing, normalisation, order book construction and replay mechanisms.
• Experience implementing recovery and reconciliation processes.
• Good knowledge of crypto market structure, liquidity fragmentation, spot markets and derivatives, including perpetual futures.

Nice to have

• Experience with decentralised exchange connectivity or traditional market access systems would be advantageous.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. It is a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing.