Platform Engineer

Description

We are currently seeking driven and talented Software Engineers who thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state of the art trading applications. TT’s platform is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders around the world. As a Software Engineer, you will work on our award-winning trading platform, which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading, and more.

What Will You Be Involved With?

• What you can expect during the initial training period (anticipated 3-6 months - the length of the training period might vary depending on the candidate).

• Work closely with the team to learn how our tools and processes facilitate the development, testing and deployment of backend applications

• Gain understanding of our development process and begin bug fix and feature development

• Learn the operational responsibilities of our team, shadow team members during their on-call rotation and begin on-call rotation with a mentor

• Participate in recurring evaluations that will serve as checkpoints to ensure progress

• What you can expect to be responsible for and continually own, after successful completion of the training period.

• Continue to support existing processes, tools and applications

• Develop and oversee rollout of new deployment features

• Continue to develop new deployment methodologies (e.g., containers and/or Kubernetes)

• Perform change execution and operational duties during on-call rotation (requires night/weekend work)

• Participate in design discussions and code reviews

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Development experience with AWS, Python, Automation Tools (e.g., Github Actions), deployment systems (e.g., Chef), Terraform, Kubernetes (Docker)

• Comfortable in a Linux environment

• Experience developing automation software component(s) that scale

• Test automation, monitoring, NFRs, build quality first

• Clean coding style with emphasis on readability

• Familiarity with Git is a plus

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical requirements

• Fluent spoken and written English, ability to communicate via whiteboard and produce architecture diagrams and documentation

About Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.