Production Engineer - Electronic Trading Systems
Who We Are
Our client is a leading quantitative trading and investment firm operating across global markets. The business combines technology, quantitative research, and systematic trading to build highly automated trading systems that process large volumes of market activity every day.
The firm's engineering culture resembles that of a top technology company, with a strong emphasis on software engineering, automation, ownership, and operational excellence.
We welcome applicants from across the globe. Relocation support will be provided for suitable candidates.
We Are Seeking: Production Engineer - Electronic Trading Systems
This role sits at the intersection of Software Engineering, Production Engineering, Trading Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering.
The team is responsible for building, operating, and improving the systems that support a global electronic trading business spanning Asia, Europe, and the US. This is not a traditional production support role. Engineers are expected to write production-quality code, automate operational workflows, troubleshoot complex incidents, and work directly with traders and researchers to improve the reliability and performance of trading systems.
This is an excellent opportunity for strong software engineers interested in systems, infrastructure, and production environments, as well as production engineers looking for a highly technical role with significant engineering ownership.
Strong coding ability is essential.
The team places a strong emphasis on software development fundamentals, automation, and problem-solving, with production reliability forming a core part of the role.
Experience within prop trading firms, hedge funds, exchanges, market data providers, large scale tech companies, or other performance-sensitive production environments is highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation, tooling, and infrastructure supporting global electronic trading systems
- Improve the reliability, observability, and operational readiness of production environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues affecting trading activity
- Support release, deployment, and testing processes across global environments
- Build monitoring and operational tooling to improve platform efficiency
- Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers, software engineers, and infrastructure teams
- Contribute to architecture, capacity planning, and operational best practices
Requirements
- 3-10 years of experience across Software Engineering, Production Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or similar disciplines
- Strong programming ability in Python, Java, C++, or similar object-oriented languages
- Demonstrated ability to write production-quality code and solve technical problems algorithmically
- Ability to troubleshoot and debug applications in production environments
- Experience automating operational processes and workflows
- Strong communication skills and ownership mindset
- Comfortable operating within fast-paced, business-critical environments
Highly Relevant Experience
- Electronic trading systems or trading infrastructure
- Order lifecycle management and market connectivity
- Production support for low-latency environments
- Monitoring, observability, and incident management tooling
- Infrastructure automation and deployment tooling
- Financial services, exchanges, market makers, or quantitative trading firms
- Digital assets or crypto trading infrastructure
What We're Looking For
- Strong coder who enjoys understanding how systems behave in production
- Engineer-first mindset with a focus on automation
- Prefers solving root causes rather than applying short-term fixes
- Comfortable balancing software development with operational ownership
- Curious, collaborative, and comfortable working directly with highly technical stakeholders
- Calm under pressure during critical incidents
- Strong communicator who can explain technical decisions and investigations clearly
Why Join Us
- Work directly on systems supporting live trading activity
- Exposure to global markets and high-performance trading infrastructure
- Strong mix of software engineering, automation, and production operations
- Significant ownership and impact from day one
- Opportunity to learn directly from experienced trading technologists and engineers
Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License Number 16S8194)
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