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Fully remote across the UK, the Netherlands, and France, on a 12-month contract that converts to a permanent role.You'll build best-in-class distributed systems that process high-throughput financial market data, owning architecture, code, testing and deployment end to end - genuinely cutting-edge modern C++ in one of the most demanding engineering environments in the industry.What You'll DoDesign and build best-in-class distributed systems that process high-throughput financial market data.Drive system architecture, coding, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end, stress, performance) and deployment.Translate complex, ambiguous requirements into clear tasks, balancing MVP vs. enterprise-grade and speed-to-market.RequirementsMastery of C++20 fundamentals (lambdas, move semantics, reference types, virtual/static functions), with strong CS fundamentals - design patterns and algorithmic complexity across imperative, OO and functional styles.Solid grasp of load balancing, HA / failover, inter-service communication, idempotency and ACID guarantees.Hands-on with messaging / queuing, Pub/Sub, TCP, UDP and multicast. 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