Flow Traders is looking for an Experienced Trading Operations Engineer to join our fast-paced and dynamic Trading Operations team in Hong Kong. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role within a leading proprietary trading firm that thrives on innovation, ownership, and performance. We foster a culture where smart, driven individuals are empowered to make meaningful contributions from day one.
In this multifaceted role, you will act as an Operations Engineer, taking ownership of the stability, performance, and scalability of our proprietary trading systems and supporting infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our systems operate at peak efficiency across global markets.
What You Will Do
- Respond quickly to any technical issues affecting in-house trading applications
- Optimize our infrastructure for business needs
- Utilise project- and change-management tools to maintain and configure trading infrastructure
- Analyse and enhance exchange connectivity
- Investigate latency issues and bottlenecks. Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve latency issues and improve overall system efficiency
- Monitor and document trading applications and IT infrastructure
- Collaborate with developers to design new and improved in-house applications
What You Will Need to Succeed
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in a Trading Operations, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role within a proprietary trading or high-frequency trading (HFT) environment.
- Deep expertise in Unix/Linux systems, with proven ability to manage complex, latency-sensitive production environments.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, with additional experience in languages such as Go, Bash, or C++ considered a plus.
- Practical understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, multicast, routing, and DNS, with experience performing network packet analysis and investigations to diagnose and resolve low-latency system issues.
- Experience managing and supporting distributed systems and real-time infrastructure using Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures, including tuning, monitoring, and scaling.
- Working knowledge of database systems with a solid understanding of core database concepts.
- Solid experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including automation, infrastructure orchestration, and observability tools.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in distributed, high-performance systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working effectively with cross-functional teams including developers, traders, and infrastructure engineers.
- Self-driven and proactive mindset, with the ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to a culture of operational excellence.
What We Offer
We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:
- Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage
- In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
- Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
- In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
- Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
- Global rotations between our offices worldwide
- and more!
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.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in Trading Operations, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Deep expertise in Unix/Linux systems
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Knowledge of TCP/IP and network troubleshooting
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker
- Hands-on experience with Kafka
- Familiarity with Terraform and Ansible
- Strong troubleshooting skills in high-performance systems
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.
