Trading Operations Engineer — Live Market Support

Hudson River Trading; City Of London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join our global TradeOps team in NYC. You will help manage our live trading environment, configure and monitor systems, and support fast-paced market activity.

In this high-performance role you will respond to alerts, troubleshoot issues before the market opens, interface with exchanges, and collaborate with engineers and traders to optimize reliability, risk controls, and latency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Engineering, Physics, Math, etc.)
• Working knowledge of UNIX systems
• Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy interfacing with clients, both internal and external
• Incredibly organized, with a high attention to detail
• Excited to work independently in a very fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Poses an understanding of Market Data/Order Entry systems and an interest in how modern electronic markets work
• Industry experience and/or Series 7 or 57 certification is preferred

Responsibilities

• Support live trading during US market hours
• Handle order flow from HRT's trading desks
• Respond to external market alerts and outages
• Interface with exchanges & other external parties to support trading

Skills

Communication skills

Organized

Independent work

Market data understanding

Series 7/57 preferred

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

UNIX

Python

Perl

Bash

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join our global TradeOps team in NYC. You will help manage our live trading environment, configure and monitor systems, and support fast-paced market activity.

In this high-performance role you will respond to alerts, troubleshoot issues before the market opens, interface with exchanges, and collaborate with engineers and traders to optimize reliability, risk controls, and latency.