Flow Traders
Trading Operations Engineer
Our Trading Operations Engineers provide hands-on support to our traders to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems. To do this, they collaborate with highly skilled and motivated colleagues such as Traders, Developers and System Engineers. Additionally, they participate in projects to continuously improve our application and monitoring landscape and monitor trends to capitalize on opportunities for using new technologies. Our Trading Operations Engineers have full ownership of technical related issues for our in-house trading applications which directly contribute to the profit and loss of the company. What You Will Do
Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment and implement solutions Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management Build, use and maintain CI/CD pipelines Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows What You Need To Succeed
University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other quantitative fields Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++) Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous Knowledge of or interest in technologies such as Ansible, Distributed Stacks, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka is a plus Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills Good communication skills Good decision making and problem solving skills At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company's success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution. Per the NYC Salary Transparency Law, the total compensation for this role includes a base of $105,000 - $125,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.
Our Trading Operations Engineers provide hands-on support to our traders to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems. To do this, they collaborate with highly skilled and motivated colleagues such as Traders, Developers and System Engineers. Additionally, they participate in projects to continuously improve our application and monitoring landscape and monitor trends to capitalize on opportunities for using new technologies. Our Trading Operations Engineers have full ownership of technical related issues for our in-house trading applications which directly contribute to the profit and loss of the company. What You Will Do
Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment and implement solutions Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management Build, use and maintain CI/CD pipelines Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows What You Need To Succeed
University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other quantitative fields Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++) Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous Knowledge of or interest in technologies such as Ansible, Distributed Stacks, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka is a plus Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills Good communication skills Good decision making and problem solving skills At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company's success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution. Per the NYC Salary Transparency Law, the total compensation for this role includes a base of $105,000 - $125,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.