Low-Latency Trading Systems Support Engineer

Morgan McKinley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is supporting a leading market infrastructure and financial brokerage firm in a role within a specialised agency execution team. You will support a fast-paced relative value trading desk using low-latency infrastructure and high-frequency algorithms.

Role focuses on L1-L3 production support, system monitoring, reference data operations, and incident resolution in an active trading environment.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years hands-on Trading Systems / Application Support experience within a broker, bank, hedge fund, or electronic trading venue.
• Direct experience supporting a trading front-end (GUI) and understanding of trading workflows.
• Exposure to fixed income knowledge, FIX protocol, or low-latency environments is a plus.
• Understanding of SDLC and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide L1/L2/L3 production support for front-to-back trading applications.
• Monitor live order flow and tune alerts and tooling.
• Manage and update critical trading system reference data.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues under pressure.

Skills

Trading systems

Front-end GUI

Incident management

Low-latency trading

Reference data

Job description

Morgan McKinley is supporting a leading market infrastructure and financial brokerage firm in a role within a specialised agency execution team. You will support a fast-paced relative value trading desk using low-latency infrastructure and high-frequency algorithms.

Role focuses on L1-L3 production support, system monitoring, reference data operations, and incident resolution in an active trading environment.