About the position
We are looking for a FIX Onboarding and Connectivity Engineer to help us grow our client-facing trading business by working on the technical processes that enable new external clients to trade with Jane Street. This role will involve a mix of working with our trading teams to help them grow the business and with our technology teams to help us build the best onboarding systems. Jane Street is a place where people come to learn new things (and to eventually teach others what they know), so while some experience with FIX and other order flow/electronic trading protocols and onboarding is required, we’re excited to teach you the specifics of our trading and technology.
The majority of your time on the Client-Facing Tech Team will focus on onboarding and connectivity projects. This will involve prioritising requests from the trading desks; liaising and working with our developers, engineers and external parties; and seeing the onboarding process all the way through to production. We work in a technical environment, so you will need to be comfortable navigating the Unix command line. A large chunk of your time will be spent on communicating and coordinating with the technical counterparts on our client’s side. Often, you will find yourself bridging the gap between our clients, our trading teams and our technology teams. Strong communication and project management skills are essential. As you do this work, we will expect you to keep a thoughtful and empathetic perspective on the way the team functions and collaborates as a whole, and to come up with ideas for how we can develop, improve and promote our best practices. We'll also look to you for opinions on how we approach and deliver project work, and how we should interface with other internal teams.
About you
- Knowledgeable and experienced with FIX networks and OMS providers
- Comfortable operating in a Linux/Unix environment
- Having some familiarity with programming is a plus, but not required
- Experienced with scripting in Bash
- Excellent with coordinating and project managing technical requirements across multiple stakeholders
- Detail-oriented with strong communication skills
- Fluent in English
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What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people.
Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar.
Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles.
We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day.
People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
