Application Support Engineer - Trading - £100K+

ZipRecruiter; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing trading firm is seeking an Application Support Engineer to join its team. This role involves providing trader support for sophisticated trading applications and collaborating with development and DevOps teams to enhance and automate processes. Candidates should possess excellent Java skills, a strong academic background, and an understanding of cloud and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar Application Support / Support Engineering position.
• Proven experience supporting complex applications.
• Good understanding of Linux and Windows networking.

Responsibilities

• Support trader and quant-facing applications.
• Work closely with development and DevOps teams.
• Manage new code deployments and implement improvements.

Skills

Java coding

SQL

Infrastructure understanding

Monitoring and automation

DevOps knowledge

Cloud knowledge

Education

Strong academic background

Job description

Job Description

Application Support Engineer - Trading - £100K+

Our client is a growing trading firm.

They build innovative, in-house, software for low latency, algo trading across energy and commodity markets and are growing their Application Support and Support Engineering team.

In a varied role you’ll be involved in trader and quant-facing support across the business, supporting complex, sophisticated, trading applications.

You’ll worked closely with development and DevOps teams to build and implement improvements, manage new code deployments and drive automation.

This role will require weekend on-call work.

Requirements:

• Experience in a similar Application Support / Support Engineering position
• Excellent Java coding skills and knowledge
• Proven experience of supporting and improving complex applications
• Strong academic background
• Good DevOps and Cloud knowledge is ideal
• SQL knowledge
• Good Infrastructure (Linux, Windows networking) understanding
• Experience of monitoring and automation