Senior TradeOps Engineer

The Trade Operations (TradeOps) team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment. The team creates and maintains one of the most robust and efficient 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 Trade Operations team focuses on automating manual tasks and preparing for the unexpected.

The Senior Trade Operations Engineer will be tasked with understanding our market and broker relationships, technology requirements, and regulatory commitments. This person will need to have exceptional communication and organizational skills paired with a hands-on approach and strong technology background. Project areas include: market access, monitoring and compliance, algo/strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning, and automation.

Profile

• You have superior design, debugging, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• You have excellent communication, collaboration, and prioritization skills in an environment where precision and nuance matters
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• You have a commitment to continuous improvement, including of yourself, your teammates, and our software
• You can take difficult projects that involve coordination with multiple parties (internal and external), and bring them to fruition

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• Experience with at least one higher level language, such as C++ or Python
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication
• Experience in trading, finance, or a related field is preferred
• Understanding of market data/order entry systems is preferred
• Flexibility around early start times to monitor live trading as needed