Electronic Trading Support Engineer Job at Selby Jennings, New York, NY

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  • Selby Jennings
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Job title: Trade Application Support Engineer

Comp: 200-500k total comp, candidate dependent.

Work Model: in office, midtown Manhattan

Summary: A successful hedge fund is looking for an accomplished application support engineer to join their electronic trade team. You will be scripting in Python to create automation and make trading more efficient. You will also troubleshoot their trading applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide L1 and L2 support for Front Office staff (Traders, Investment Professionals) to quickly identify and resolve issues as they arise and ensure continuity of the business.
  • Gather business requirements and liaise with various IT teams to ensure delivery of functionality.
  • User / strategy application support
  • Assist in the deployment, checkout, and QA testing of applications.
  • System support & SOD/intraday health checks.
  • Work closely with the back office teams to remedy issues related to security setups, trade booking, corporate actions, price breaks, and book keeping entries.

Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting trading systems within the finance industry
    · Experience with Unix, Linux
    · Experience with databases such as Sybase or SQL
    · Proficiency in Python and shell scripting language
    · Deep understanding of trading workflows and the ability to troubleshoot breaks
  • FIX protocol knowledge
  • Experience with incident management, problem solving outages and breaks
    · Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues
  • Bachelors Degree in engineering or computer science or related field of study


Desired Skills and Experience

trade support
support engineer
python
sql
kdb
c++
application support
production support
trade
OMS
trading systems
equities
derivatives

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