Quantitative Developer (C++ HFT Systems） - 2027 Campus Recruitment

About Mingshi

Founded in 2010, Mingshi is one of China’s pioneering quantitative investment firms. Our team brings together exceptional talent from finance, mathematics, physics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and other disciplines. Grounded in rigorous research and driven by technological innovation, we continuously build stable, efficient, and scalable quantitative research and trading systems, with the ambition of "To be the authority of A Quant."

Your Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain core components of our high-frequency trading systems, including market data ingestion, local order books, strategy connectivity, order execution, trading gateways, and risk controls;

2. Build low-latency, high-throughput production systems in C++, optimizing average latency, P99/P999 tail latency, and reliability across critical trading paths;

3. Ensure accurate and recoverable market and order states by handling packet loss, out-of-order and duplicate messages, and snapshot-to-incremental transitions;

4. Optimize threading models, data layouts, and communication mechanisms, addressing performance issues such as lock contention, false sharing, dynamic memory allocation, cross-core communication, NUMA, system calls, and network I/O;

5. Build market replay, trading simulation, performance testing, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to support system testing, strategy validation, and incident reproduction;

6. Contribute to code reviews, testing, deployment, and production support, diagnosing latency spikes, data anomalies, and trading-path failures;

7. Partner with quantitative researchers and traders to turn strategy requirements into reliable, testable, production-ready systems and improve execution efficiency.

Your Skills & Talents

1. Bachelor’s degree or higher from a leading university in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. Candidates should be graduating in 2027 or have graduated within the past two years;

2. Strong C/C++ programming skills and solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms;

3. Strong understanding of Linux, operating systems, networking, and multithreading;

4. Ability to analyze latency, throughput, resource usage, and system reliability;

5. Strong problem-solving and teamwork skills, with an interest in HFT and low-latency systems.