Trading Systems Engineer — Real-Time Crypto Connectivity

Westren Capital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 160.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Westren Capital, a London-based proprietary trading firm, seeks a Trading Systems Engineer to own exchange connectivity, trade capture, and the tools that keep traders and engineers informed about system health in real time. You’ll work across Python, C++, and other languages to ensure reliability across many venues.

The role emphasizes debugging live production issues under pressure, deep Linux/networking knowledge, and close collaboration with traders and platform engineers to align systems

Qualifikationen

• Solid programming experience in Python and/or C++, with the ability to work across a mixed-language trading systems stack.
• Experience with exchange connectivity, trade capture, or order management systems is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable debugging live production issues methodically, under pressure, without guessing.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain exchange connectivity and trade capture systems across a growing number of digital asset venues.
• Design and support monitoring and alerting tools that give traders and engineers real-time visibility into system health and trading activity.
• Investigate and resolve production issues across the trading systems stack, often under time pressure when a venue or connection misbehaves.
• Work across a multi-language stack (Python, C++, and others) depending on what a given system actually needs.
• Collaborate closely with traders, quants, and platform engineers to understand how systems are actually used, not just how they were spec'd.

Kenntnisse

Python

C++

Trading systems

Debugging under pressure

Tools

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Exchange connectivity

Trade capture systems

Jobbeschreibung

Westren Capital, a London-based proprietary trading firm, seeks a Trading Systems Engineer to own exchange connectivity, trade capture, and the tools that keep traders and engineers informed about system health in real time. You’ll work across Python, C++, and other languages to ensure reliability across many venues.

The role emphasizes debugging live production issues under pressure, deep Linux/networking knowledge, and close collaboration with traders and platform engineers to align systems