Posted 22 days ago
Description
The company is the digital assets division of a leading FCA-authorized investment management firm overseeing multi-billion-dollar assets under management. The team focuses exclusively on digital assets and operates a leading market-neutral trading platform, leveraging technology, quantitative research, and data-driven decision-making
Role Overview
We are seeking a Junior Trade Support Engineer to join our Front Office Technology team. This
is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer with a strong STEM background who
is passionate about technology, problem-solving, and real-time systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor live trading systems, exchange connectivity, and market data feeds
- Investigate and resolve real-time production incidents and trading anomalies.
- Troubleshoot order execution issues, latency spikes, and data inconsistencies.
- Collaborate with developers, quantitative researchers, and traders to identify root causes.
- Conduct post-incident analysis and improve system reliability.
- Build and maintain monitoring tools, dashboards, and automation scripts.
- Support operational processes, alerting frameworks, and runbooks.
- Develop increasing ownership of trading platform operations as experience grows
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Understanding of Linux operating systems and command-line tools.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Production Support, SRE, Trade Support, or a related role.
- Familiarity with networking concepts, debugging techniques, and log analysis.
- Exposure to distributed systems and cloud environments.
- Interest in real-time systems, low-latency infrastructure, and financial markets.
- Trading, exchange, or digital asset exposure is beneficial but not required.
