Job Title: Trade Application Support Engineer, US Equities
Work model: 4x a week in office, Manhattan
Comp: 200-500k total compensation
Summary: A leading multi strat hedge fund is looking for an application support engineer to join their growing equities team. A successful candidate will have automation experience in Python. The role will have a high level of interaction with the investment staff including Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Analysts, to proactively discover and understand issues and potential workflow/system improvements. They must have experience directly supporting the demanding needs of a growing equities business.
Responsibilities: - Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of Equities focused applications, including Equity Trading, Position, PnL, Risk, Reporting, Research and compliance systems.
- Enhance, support and maintain the firm's Equity front, middle and back-office systems
- Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities
- Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence.
- Work with external vendors to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements
- Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on rotation
- Work in person 4+ times a week
Qualifications:- 5+ years of experience supporting an Equities investment/trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendors
- A thorough understanding of Equity products e.g. Cash Equities, Futures, Options. Must be able to discuss details with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Operations and Risk Managers.
- Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systems
- Experience scripting tools in python and/or PowerShell for support purposes
- SQL experience across varioabase implementations
- Experience supporting OMS/EMS equity platforms such as Flextrade, Virtu Triton, SpiderRock
- Experience in supporting applications hosted on Linux, Cloud (Kubernetes, AWS)
- Knowledge of Messaging platforms - Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Experience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flow
- Familiarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSys
- Experience using/building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, LogicMonitor
Desired Skills and Experience
python
FIX
SQL
equity
equities
oms
trading systerms
trade
trading
trader
bash
shell
coding
application support
production support