Lead Low Latency Engineer

About the Role

EC1 Partners represents a prominent global financial markets technology company searching for a Lead Low Latency Engineer based in Singapore. This senior engineer will hold technical leadership responsibilities focusing on reducing latency throughout the entire trading platform. The role demands collaboration across different facets including software, protocols, connectivity, configurations, hardware, and networking to pinpoint bottlenecks, enhance system observability, and drive measurable gains in trading system performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of latency analysis and performance optimization across the trading infrastructure.
• Identify, document, and prioritize bottlenecks that contribute to latency.
• Architect and build telemetry, instrumentation, and alerting mechanisms to monitor latency.
• Lead initiatives to improve performance in areas spanning software, protocols, connectivity, configuration, hardware, and network layers.
• Develop and fine-tune high-performance low-latency trading services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, infrastructure, and business units to align goals and delivery.
• Communicate insights, progress, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership effectively.
• Promote engineering best practices and performance standards related to low-latency systems.

Required Experience and Skills

• Extensive experience and strong proficiency in C++ software development.
• Hands-on experience building or optimizing trading systems designed for low latency and high throughput.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and methods for performance tuning.
• Familiarity with telemetry tools, observability frameworks, benchmarking, or equivalent instrumentation techniques.
• Exposure to Java and/or Python programming languages is an advantage.
• Solid understanding of Linux operating systems and trading infrastructure technology.
• Knowledge of foreign exchange (FX) or electronic trading processes and workflows.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with both technical teams and senior management.
• A proactive, detail-oriented approach, with strong ownership of complex end-to-end performance challenges.

Additional Information

This position offers a key opportunity to influence and enhance the latency and performance of a critical global trading platform, improving reliability and client satisfaction in a dynamic financial market environment.