Senior Live Trading Platform Production Engineer

Orbis Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Group is seeking a Senior Front Office Production Engineer to join a live, real-time electronic trading platform in fixed income and derivatives. You will own the production and UAT layers, diagnose issues end-to-end, and communicate clearly under pressure while collaborating with trading desks and clients across multiple time zones.

You will write and read code to investigate incidents, from OS to database and network, and build automation to prevent repeats, participating in go-lives and

Qualifications

• Real production experience on a live, high-stakes system (trading, exchange, prop, or fintech) where you investigated, not just escalated.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similarly technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on depth.
• Comfortable across Windows and Linux at a genuine troubleshooting level.
• SQL fluency and scripting ability (Python, PowerShell, or similar) used to debug a live problem, not just for reports.
• Ability to read object-oriented code (C++, Java, or similar) and reason about what it's doing.
• A calm head under pressure and the instinct to communicate while mid-investigation.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule, including early starts, evenings, and a weekend maintenance rotation.

Responsibilities

• Own the application layer of a mission-critical trading platform across Production and UAT
• Diagnose issues fast across logs, code, OS, and network down to the root cause
• Write and read code to investigate live issues; use scripting as a diagnostic tool
• Be the technical bridge between engineering, the trading desk, and clients when things go sideways
• Build the automation to prevent repeated incidents
• Take part in go-lives, DR testing, and config management for a platform that cannot go dark

Skills

Live production experience

Root cause analysis

Incident communication

Problem-solving under pressure

Education

CS/Engineering/Math degree

Tools

Windows

Linux

SQL

Python

PowerShell

C++/Java basics

Job description

Orbis Group is seeking a Senior Front Office Production Engineer to join a live, real-time electronic trading platform in fixed income and derivatives. You will own the production and UAT layers, diagnose issues end-to-end, and communicate clearly under pressure while collaborating with trading desks and clients across multiple time zones.

You will write and read code to investigate incidents, from OS to database and network, and build automation to prevent repeats, participating in go-lives and