C++ Developer – ETF Technology & Infrastructure

The role

You will design and build core platforms, services, and infrastructure supporting ETF capabilities. This involves developing high-performance C++ applications and end-to-end workflows.

What you will do

• Design and develop high-performance C++ applications and services supporting ETF-related platforms and infrastructure.
• Build reusable platform components for data processing, messaging, connectivity, workflow orchestration, and system integration.
• Develop reliable services for handling real-time and reference data from multiple internal and external sources.
• Design automated, event-driven solutions for complex, multi-stage business workflows.
• Create well-controlled systems with appropriate validation, auditability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Improve the performance, resilience, scalability, and observability of production systems.
• Integrate new components with QRT's broader technology and data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-architected and maintainable solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, testing standards, code quality, and long-term platform strategy.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience developing performance-sensitive applications in modern C++.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and software architecture.
• Experience with multithreaded, concurrent, and event-driven programming.
• Strong experience developing and operating software on Linux.
• Experience building reliable production systems that process real-time or high-volume data.
• Experience designing APIs, messaging-based services, or integrations with external systems and data providers.
• Understanding of distributed systems, failure handling, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Practical knowledge of the ETF ecosystem, including products, data, market structure, participants, conventions, and operational lifecycles.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building technology within the ETF, asset management, investment banking, or broader financial markets space.
• Familiarity with ETF reference data, pricing data, lifecycle events, and related operational processes.
• Experience with market data feeds, financial messaging standards, connectivity protocols, or middleware technologies.
• Experience designing and operating resilient distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with Python or another language used for tooling, integration, or data analysis.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation, CI/CD, and modern observability tools.

Benefits

• Discretionary performance-based bonuses
• Competitive benefits package

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating across liquid asset classes worldwide. It is a technology- and data-driven group that applies a scientific approach to investing.