Our Trading Operations Engineers provide hands-on support to our traders to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems. To do this, they collaborate with highly skilled and motivated colleagues such as Traders, Developers and System Engineers. Additionally, they participate in projects to continuously improve our application and monitoring landscape and monitor trends to capitalize on opportunities for using new technologies. Our Trading Operations Engineers have full ownership of technical related issues for our in-house trading applications which directly contribute to the profit and loss of the company.
What You Will Do- Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment and implement solutions
- Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment
- Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions
- Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management
- Build, use and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software
- Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
- Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows
- University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other quantitative fields
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
- Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++)
- Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous
- Knowledge of or interest in technologies such as Ansible, Distributed Stacks, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka is a plus
- Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
- Good communication skills
- Good decision making and problem solving skills
At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company’s success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution.
Per the NYC Salary Transparency Law, the total compensation for this role includes a base of $105,000 - $125,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.
Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.
At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
