Trading Systems Engineer

Kalpa Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalpa Group is seeking a talented engineer to design and operate the systems that connect our quantitative strategies to live markets. You will own critical components end‑to‑end, ensuring correctness, low latency, and reliable uptime in production environments.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to build real-time services, integrate with exchanges, and implement observability, incident response, and robust deployment practices under pressure.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience building production distributed systems.
• Strong Python plus a systems-level language (C++, Rust, or Go).
• Proven track record owning real-time, production-grade services.
• Solid understanding of event-driven and distributed system design.
• Operational experience: observability, debugging under pressure, incident response.
• Sharp communicator, analytical, detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the trading infrastructure that puts the firm's strategies into live markets.
• Build and run real-time services where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable.
• Integrate with external exchanges, venues, and counterparties.
• Take ownership of production operations — observability, alerting, and incident response.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident response

Communication

Tools

C++

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Confidential Search — Systematic Investment Firm

We're hiring on behalf of a quantitative investment firm for a role building and running the systems that connect its investment strategies to live markets. Correctness and uptime aren't nice-to-haves here — the team that builds these systems also carries the pager for them.

You'll work closely with researchers and engineers across the business. The right candidate owns their systems end-to-end, stays level-headed when production issues hit, communicates clearly, and doesn't cut corners on detail.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the trading infrastructure that puts the firm's strategies into live markets
• Build and run real-time services where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable
• Integrate with external exchanges, venues, and counterparties
• Take ownership of production operations — observability, alerting, and incident response

What We're Looking For

• 3–7 years' experience building production distributed systems
• Strong Python plus a systems-level language (C++, Rust, or Go)
• A track record of owning real-time, production-grade services
• Solid understanding of event-driven and distributed system design
• Real operational experience: observability, debugging under pressure, incident response
• Sharp communicator, analytically strong, detail-oriented

Bonus Points

• Experience building or operating execution platforms or OMS/EMS systems
• FIX protocol or other real-time market connectivity experience
• Familiarity with market microstructure
• Low-latency performance optimization experience