Senior TradeOps Engineer

The Trade Operations (TradeOps) team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment. The team creates and maintains one of the most robust and efficient trading platforms in the world. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s trading as well as handling risk, regulatory, and development tasks. The Trade Operations team focuses on automating manual tasks and preparing for the unexpected.

In a high performance environment, immediate detection and reaction to systems and trading issues is essential. That’s where HRT’s Trade Operations Engineers come in. You’ll be responsible for managing new initiatives and ensuring a smooth trading day. You will be tasked with understanding our market and broker relationships, technology requirements, and regulatory commitments. This person will also be the subject matter expert on recent changes to the production trading platform.

Responsibilities include handling order flow from HRT’s trading desks, responding to external market alerts and outages, and interfacing with exchanges and other external parties to support trading. The team’s scope covers everything from systems infrastructure, to compliance, risk management, overnight clearing, and performance improvement.

Profile

• You have superior design, debugging, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• You can take difficult projects that involve coordination with multiple parties (internal and external), and bring them to fruition
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• You have excellent communication, collaboration, and prioritization skills in an environment where precision and nuance matters
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• You have a commitment to continuous improvement, including of yourself, your teammates, and our software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• 5-10+ years of experience
• Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication
• Extensive experience supporting electronic trading systems is preferred
• Understanding of market data/order entry systems is preferred
• Experience mentoring and coaching other engineers

Culture

Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.

Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.