Trading Production Engineer

About the role

The individual in this role will collaborate extensively with researchers and technologists to evolve, improve, and maintain the trading team’s production infrastructure, helping to ensure that trading proceeds smoothly across global markets.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary US coverage for the team
• Ensure strategies are connected to all markets
• Ensure data is available and in the right volume and format
• Ensure optimizer is running as scheduled
• Manage the existing monitoring system
• Act as primary escalation point for error messages or jobs not running
• Chase problems identified by the monitoring system to their source, identify bugs, write fixes
• Able to take a big picture view of the business' operations
• Establish and maintain a very high bar for uptime and robustness
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Requirements

• Work experience in Python, Linux, Bash
• Ability to write patches, but an ideal candidate can write the patch to the encoder
• Must be able to follow the error messages to the source, identify the problem, and begin the fix, rather than forwarding errors to others
• Driven self-starter
• Genuinely collaborative
• Excellent verbal and written communication around technical problems and fixes
• An obsessive attention to details and correctness
• Ability to identify, propose, and automate improvements to existing processes
• Focused on precision, rather than a “move fast and break things” attitude
• Prior experience in trading preferred
• Reliable and predictable availability

Qualifications

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
• Paid vacation plus paid holidays
• Retail plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness Programs

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary Range : $200,000 USD - $250,000 USD