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.

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.