Trading Operations Developer

About the role

Were looking for a Trading Operations Engineer to join our TradeOps team supporting US EU Asian and crypto markets across a global trading infrastructure.

Youll monitor and resolve production issues in real time manage trading strategies and infrastructure and build tools dashboards and automation to improve speed and reliability. The role involves close collaboration with trading research engineering clearing and infrastructure teams.

This is not just a monitoring role - youll design and build systems that directly enhance operations. If youre curious enjoy digging into complex systems and want to make immediate impact this role is for you.

We will provide additional training on trading systems and platform-specific tooling.

Location
Austin Texas OR London UK (On-Site)

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and support production trading strategies across multiple asset classes (equities futures FX crypto) and exchanges (CME Eurex ICE NYSE NASDAQ HKEX LME)

• Investigate and resolve production incidents: strategy failures application crashes connectivity issues clearing reconciliation breaks

• Manage trading application lifecycle from launches restarts configuration changes to risk limit updates

• Support clearing and post-trade operations; trade reconciliation drop copy feed management broker coordination

• Manage server infrastructure; disk space log rotation OS upgrades certificate management capacity planning

• Coordinate with external counterparties - clearing brokers exchanges market data vendors

• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards automation scripts and operational tooling

• Maintain operational runbooks and knowledge base documentation

• Communicate incident status and trading impact to portfolio managers and senior management

• Identify process improvement opportunities and deliver automation to reduce manual intervention
  
  

Basic Requirements

• Computer Science Engineering or related degree

• Practical knowledge of Python and Bash scripting

• Practical experience with Linux systems administration (SSH processes disk management

• cron jobs log analysis)

• SQL proficiency for querying production databases

• Strong problem-solving skills under time pressure

• Curiosity and a builder mindset you enjoy understanding how systems work end-to-end

• and are excited to design and build tools that solve real problems

• Detail-oriented approach with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Have Requirements

• Trading systems or financial operations experience

• Knowledge of FIX protocol and exchange connectivity

• Experience with Java (reading logs configs stack traces)

• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Icinga/Nagios Grafana)

• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow cron-based scheduling)

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS TCP/IP multicast TLS/stunnel)

• Experience with version control (Git SVN)

• Frontend development skills (React JavaScript) for tooling and dashboards

• Understanding of trading concepts - order lifecycle clearing settlement risk management
  
  

What Youll Get

• Direct impact on production trading - when you fix something strategies trade

• Exposure to the full technology stack from hardware to trading strategies

• Work across multiple asset classes and global exchanges

• Learn directly from quantitative researchers traders and senior engineers

• Small team with high autonomy and direct access to senior management

• Build real systems from scratch - dashboards automation tools monitoring platforms

• and AI-powered investigation engines that you own end-to-end

• Opportunity to design and ship complex projects that have immediate measurable impact on trading operations

• Rare insight into how a quantitative trading firm operates end-to-end

What makes you a match !

• You love to code and believe technology is YOUR thing

• You like working with people and resolving tech issues

• Working with prod doesnt scare you

• You are not afraid of the unknown and love to learn

Benefits

• Health insurance

• Flexible sick time policy

• Office lunches
  
  

Required Experience:

IC