Real-Time Trading Systems Engineer

Quant Capital; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Quant Capital is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join its Amsterdam technology team. This production-facing role supports the systems behind automated trading, keeping the platform stable, well monitored and properly deployed.

You will be close to traders, developers and infrastructure, comfortable digging into Linux, logs and release problems, and you’ll work with a real trading stack alongside diverse teams.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting business-critical production systems.
• Good troubleshooting ability across applications, systems and networks.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, routing or multicast.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar.

Responsibilities

• Support live trading systems during market hours.
• Own production issues from alert through to resolution.
• Help manage releases, configuration changes and deployments.
• Investigate issues across Linux, applications, market data and connectivity.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and operational tooling.
• Write small scripts to remove repetitive manual work.
• Work closely with developers, infrastructure and trading teams.

Skills

Production support

Troubleshooting

TCP/IP knowledge

Python Bash scripting

Calm under pressure

Communication

Education

Computer science or engineering background

Tools

Monitoring tools

Containers

Log analysis

Job description

Quant Capital is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join its Amsterdam technology team. This production-facing role supports the systems behind automated trading, keeping the platform stable, well monitored and properly deployed.

You will be close to traders, developers and infrastructure, comfortable digging into Linux, logs and release problems, and you’ll work with a real trading stack alongside diverse teams.