Senior Electronic Trading Support Engineer

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for Senior Electronic Trading Support Engineers to join our Trade Operations (TradeOps) team. This team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment, one of the most robust and efficient electronic trading platforms in the world. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s trading as well as handling risk, regulatory, and development tasks. The TradeOps team focuses on automating common tasks and preparing for the unexpected. Your day could consist of debugging to get a process running in time for the market open, making a difficult on-the-spot decision that balances compliance, risk, and PnL during trading hours, or coordinating the technical rollout of a new trading strategy. 

Responsibilities include handling order flow from HRT’s trading desks, responding to external market alerts and outages, and interfacing with exchanges & other external parties to support trading. The team’s scope covers everything from systems infrastructure, to compliance, risk management, overnight clearing, and performance improvement. 

Role

In a high performance environment, immediate awareness of and reaction to systems and trading issues is essential. That’s where HRT’s Electronic Trading Support Engineers come in. You’ll be responsible for managing new initiatives and ensuring a smooth trading day. You will be the first line of defense when the inevitable happens, and the subject matter expert on recent changes to the production trading platform.

Responsibilities include handling order flow from HRT’s trading desks, responding to external market alerts and outages, and interfacing with exchanges & other external parties to support trading. 

Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Engineering, Physics, Math, etc.)
• Strong working knowledge of Linux systems
• Ability to identify areas for platform improvement in a complex technical environment 
• You can take difficult projects that involve coordination with multiple parties (internal and external), and bring them to fruition
• Excellent communication & prioritization skills
• Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
• You are skeptical by nature and have a high attention to detail
• You respond well to working under high pressure scenarios

Beneficial skills / experience:

• Strong understanding of on-exchange and off-exchange / OTC products
• Working knowledge of FIX, OUCH, & other market-specific protocols
• Extensive experience supporting electronic trading systems
• Series 7/57 certification is a plus

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