My client is a HFT Firm who are looking to add a Trade Support Engineer to their rapidly expanding London office. Although the firm have an international presence, they're currently a boutique shop here in London who are looking to grow their technology presence.
Day to Day Requirements:
- Deploy, monitor, and configure a suite of proprietary trading applications
- Provide technical expertise and support to a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment
- Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them
- Intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control
- Track and solve issues as part of a fast-paced results driven set of IT teams
Skills Required:
- Bachelor's degree in CS or related technical field
- Passion for problem solving in a start-up environment
- Strong desire to work with a wide scope of technologies
- Experience with Python, Ruby, or Perl
- Experience with SQL and data administration
- Experience with operating systems and understanding network architectures
- Knowledge of trading exchanges and financial instruments is not required