Application Support £150,000 + Bonus (High frequency trading firm)

JR United Kingdom; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech trading firm seeks an experienced Application Support Engineer to enhance their team in Colchester. Candidates should have strong technical expertise, particularly in scripting with Python and a thorough understanding of Linux. This role focuses on optimizing trading systems, ensuring their readiness, and collaborating with various operational teams. With an attractive salary up to £150,000 plus bonuses, this position offers significant professional growth and rewarding responsibilities.

Benefits

Unrivalled bonus

Exceptional benefits package

Yearly pay reviews

Role progression opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience supporting front office applications/trading systems.
• Strong scripting/development ability in Python is a must.
• Strong understanding of Linux OS is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure readiness of the global trading platform for trading activities.
• Monitor and support the entire transaction flow across trading systems.
• Identify and resolve alerts and issues to minimize trade disruptions.

Skills

Scripting

Linux

SQL

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

KDB

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Application Support £150,000 + Bonus (High frequency trading firm), colchester

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Client:

Hunter Bond

Location:

colchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title: Application Support

Client: FinTech trading

Salary: Up to £150,000 + Bonus/Benefits

Location: London (Hybrid)

My client are a completely tech driven proprietary trading firm, looking to expand their Application Support team, and would like someone with prior front office experience to provide technical support and engineering functions in support of their proprietary and third party trading systems. This role will be highly technical with a large focus on automation!

responsibilities:

• Ensure readiness of the global trading platform for both pre-trading and post-trading activities.
• Monitor and support the entire transaction flow across the trading platform.
• Promptly identify, analyse, and resolve alerts and issues, or escalate them to minimize disruptions in trade flow and prevent outages.
• Collaborate extensively with the trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Supervise automated processes, scheduled jobs, and routine reports.
• Create tooling and automate processes where necessary to optimise workflows/inefficiencies
• Liaise with Dev and Infrastructure teams to coordinate and participate in software/new version releases.

The right candidate will have the following:

• 3+ Years experience supporting front office applications/trading systems
• Strong scripting/development ability in 1 or more languages (python) - Must have
• Strong understanding of Linux OS - Must have
• SQL experience
• Experience with KDB is a +
• Degree in computer science or related field
• Cutting-edge tech: 5/10 years ahead of the competition
• Rewarding, satisfying work: yearly pay reviews, role progression and autonomy
• Technologists only report to technologists
• Unrivalled bonus, exceptional benefits package

If you are interested in the Application Support Engineer role, please apply directly or email [emailprotected]