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

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

Job summary

A leading tech-driven proprietary trading firm in Wolverhampton is expanding their Application Support team. They seek a candidate with 3+ years of front office experience, strong Python scripting abilities, and a solid understanding of Linux systems. This role focuses on ensuring the trading platform's efficiency and involves close collaboration with various teams to streamline processes. Exceptional benefits and competitive bonuses are offered.

Benefits

Exceptional benefits package

Unrivaled bonus structure

Yearly pay reviews

Role progression and autonomy

Qualifications

• 3+ Years experience supporting front office applications/trading systems.
• Strong scripting/development ability in Python required.
• SQL and understanding of Linux OS essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure readiness of the trading platform for pre and post-trading activities.
• Monitor and resolve issues in trading systems to prevent disruptions.
• Automate processes to optimize workflows.

Skills

Scripting in Python

Understanding of Linux OS

SQL experience

Education

Degree in computer science or related field

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Posted:

06.06.2025

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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]