Low-Latency Trading Systems Engineer (Hybrid London)

MARGO; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology firm is seeking an experienced ITS Application Services Engineer to enhance its low-latency infrastructure for electronic trading systems. The role focuses on ensuring high connectivity and performance across FX and Fixed Income platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in low-latency networking, experience with messaging middleware, and automation skills in scripting languages. This position is hybrid, based in Central London.

Qualifications

• Strong background in low-latency networking and performance tuning.
• Proven experience with messaging middleware in performance-sensitive environments.
• Hands-on packet analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain a low-latency trading environment.
• Lead post-incident analyses using packet captures.
• Build scripts and IaC for self-healing systems.

Skills

Low-latency networking

TCP/IP

Multicast

Performance tuning

Messaging middleware (Solace, Tibco)

Wireshark

Automation with Python

Observability platforms (Geneos, Prometheus)

Real-time trading applications

Tools

Wireshark

Grafana

Prometheus

Linux (Red Hat/CentOS)

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

A global technology firm is seeking an experienced ITS Application Services Engineer to enhance its low-latency infrastructure for electronic trading systems. The role focuses on ensuring high connectivity and performance across FX and Fixed Income platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in low-latency networking, experience with messaging middleware, and automation skills in scripting languages. This position is hybrid, based in Central London.