Senior Electronic Trading Production Support Engineer – Quant Hedge Fund – Connecticut

Mondrian Alpha; Connecticut; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha in Connecticut is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to join its Market Access & Platform team. You'll own the stability, reliability and performance of a sophisticated electronic trading platform, working with traders and engineers to keep systems running smoothly and efficiently.

This front-office role emphasizes production engineering, incident management, and automation, with Python and SQL for data analysis and tooling, plus exploring AI/LLM-based enhancements to improve

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of production engineering or related role.
• Experience with electronic trading or front-office platforms.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on production engineering and technical support for critical electronic trading systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with traders and engineering teams.
• Support the full trading lifecycle: order entry, execution, market connectivity, market data and trade processing.
• Own production incidents from RCA to permanent resolution.
• Monitor platform health and improve reliability and resilience of the trading environment.
• Manage production changes, releases and deployments across trading applications.
• Develop and improve monitoring, alerting and automation to reduce manual intervention.

Skills

Production engineering

Python

SQL

Incident management

Monitoring

Automation

Troubleshooting

Trading systems

Job description

A leading quantitative investment firm is looking for a Senior Production Engineer to join its growing Market Access & Platform team in Connecticut.

This is a highly visible, front-office technology role sitting at the intersection of trading, engineering and production infrastructure. You will take ownership of the stability, reliability and performance of a sophisticated electronic trading platform, working closely with traders and engineering teams to ensure critical systems operate effectively in production.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide hands-on production engineering and technical support for critical electronic trading systems.
• Work directly with traders and engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Support the full trading lifecycle, including order entry, execution, market connectivity, market data and trade processing.
• Own production incidents from initial investigation through to root-cause analysis and permanent resolution.
• Monitor platform health, identify recurring issues and improve the reliability and resilience of the trading environment.
• Manage and support production changes, releases and deployments across critical trading applications.
• Develop and improve monitoring, alerting and automation to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response.
• Use Python and SQL to investigate issues, analyse production data and build tools for operational efficiency.
• Explore and implement AI/LLM-based tooling to improve incident triage, troubleshooting and production automation.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to identify systemic issues and drive improvements across the platform.

What We’re Looking For

• 5–7+ years' experience in Production Engineering, Electronic Trading Support, Application Support or a closely related production technology role.
• Experience supporting electronic trading or front-office platforms, ideally within an investment bank, hedge fund or other financial institution.
• Strong understanding of trading technology, including order management, execution, market connectivity and market data.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills, with experience conducting RCA and driving issues through to permanent resolution.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, automation and production stability.
• Comfortable working directly with traders and senior technology stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive mindset with a focus on improving platform reliability rather than simply reacting to incidents.

The firm offers a highly competitive compensation package and excellent benefits, alongside strong opportunities for technical development and progression.