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Trading Operations Engineer Co-op

New York

Flow Traders US, a leading international trading firm, is looking for a motivated individual with an interest in financial markets and an entrepreneurial mindset, who can manage multiple responsibilities and demands with a strong sense of urgency and customer focus. Successful candidates are adaptable problem solvers with a development mindset, proficient with Python programming and are comfortable in a Linux/Unix environment.

In this position of a Trading Operations Engineer Co-op will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems, as well as the related hardware. You will have ownership of technical related issues for our in-house trading applications, and their actions will directly contribute to the performance of the company. You will get the opportunity to interact with and work closely with different departments to gain a well-rounded knowledge of our trading applications, how they function and how they are continuously developed.

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 into 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

What you need to succeed

  • Interested in trading and financial markets
  • Knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems, plus relevant hardware knowledge
  • Affinity with scripting languages, preferably with Python and Javascript
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Strong problem-solving qualities and a serviced minded attitude
  • A hands-on mentality; self-starter and entrepreneurial mind-set

Please note that this role will be fully on site 5 days a week in our NYC office which is located in Bryant Park

Per NYC salary transparency law, the compensation for this role is $29-$33 per hour, plus overtime.

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