High Performance Engineer - C++ Network

Who We Are

Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business.

Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Who You Will Work With

Our client is a global financial services firm that manages wealth, navigates complex markets, and design strategic financial objectives.

The firm provides risk management solutions across a variety of sectors, emphasizing long-term relationships, and innovative approaches to financial challenges.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop and support high-quality C++ libraries in collaboration with global engineering teams.
• Enhance networking and communications platform capabilities to support application development and performance.
• Integrate platform libraries with build systems, packaging infrastructure and development environments.
• Identify technology gaps and implement practical solutions to improve developer productivity, application performance and reliability.
• Maintain, troubleshoot and enhance existing C++ libraries and platform components to ensure stability and efficiency.
• Conduct technical investigations, experiments and proof of concept activities to evaluate and implement new technologies and solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional development teams to gather requirements, drive library adoption and promote C++ engineering best practice.

What You Bring

• Strong commercial experience developing applications using C++.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, connection management and load balancing.
• Experience with Linux development, troubleshooting and debugging in production environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and technical debugging skills.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, performance optimisation and platform engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional development teams and support internal stakeholders.

What's Next

If you are ready to take the next step, apply now!

Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more.