About the Role:
As Trading Systems Engineer at Da Vinci, you’ll work closely with a small team of highly skilled traders and engineers. You’ll be responsible for managing our trading systems, making sure they run smoothly in day-to-day operations, with future growth in mind.
As our trading systems are highly customised, balancing stability with ongoing change is one of the key challenges in this job. Our engineers often need to learn on the go, so we are looking for people who enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee system performance, stability and uptime
- Automate the environment and testing new technology fads
- Architect, implement, maintain and monitor our rapidly growing intercontinental production environment
- Manage not only “what” is running in production, but also “how” these systems are behaving
- Address potential failures and bottlenecks to proactively prevent obstacles
Requirements:
- 0-2 years of experience managing mission-critical infrastructure and software support (in a trading environment it’s a plus)
- Intimate knowledge of networking, hardware and OSs (Linux, Windows)
- Familiar with tooling and best practices regarding change, life cycle and incident management, as well as health and performance monitoring of production systems
- Proficient with scripting (e.g., bash, python)
- Quick at analysing issues and uncovering their root causes
- Eager to learn and understand all aspects of the trading environment
- Ability to spot inefficiencies and proactive in optimising systems
- Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
Benefits:
- An opportunity to work in a high-tech, driven environment
- A base salary of EUR 70K to 80K, with possibility to grow
- Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
- A relocation package when moving from abroad, including a relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
- Fresh breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by our in-house chef
- Social events and after-work drinks
- Reimbursement of travel costs to and from the office
- Sponsored gym membership
- In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
Top Skills
What We Do
Da Vinci was founded in 2015 after a group of passionate trading experts found themselves desiring a new way of working. They wanted to do things differently. At Da Vinci, our goal is to build the best proprietary trading house in the world by doing just that. We strive to keep our work smart and innovative, making the most of our team’s strategic minds to challenge existing ways of thinking. We’ve established a unique approach to trading and have high standards for company culture. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market — Amsterdam — and spend each day immersed in the city’s rich financial and trading history.
Becoming the best in the world means building a team of first-rate talent with the most innovative ideas. The real value comes from how we work and grow together, making working at Da Vinci challenging and rewarding. We have a lot of fun and truly enjoy what we do; at Da Vinci, we value collaboration, so you can find traders, software engineers, researchers and founders working closely together every day. We are nonhierarchical, support employees moving flexibly within the firm and place no limit on personal growth. No matter their role, everyone is key to sustainably growing Da Vinci into the business we know it can be.
We value excellence in everything we do, encourage employees to take ownership of their work. We believe that our colleagues must consistently feel stimulated and supported in order to reach their full potential and achieve our ambitious goals.
