Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Build Engineer to join our growing Product Development team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!

The Build Engineering team provides automated CI/CD solutions and services to all applications in Flow Traders and to their supporting tools and services.

The applications are written in Java, C and Python while for the CI pipelines the stack comprises of Bamboo, Bitbucket, Artifactory and Sonar.

The team members are not only users of these tools but they also manage them (for example taking care of upgrades and patches). In addition, automation and Configuration as Code are very important and used extensively in order to minimize manual work.

The day to day activities consist of both providing build services as well as solving ad-hoc service requests in order to help other teams with their own work (either by offering immediate support, ideas or suggestions)

What you will do

You will be responsible for automating the build and deployment process throughout the SDLC.

• Manage the build and release process for multiple concurrent releases for Java, CPP, Python based apps
• Build and Continuous integration issues debugging, troubleshooting and providing for long term solutions. This includes good knowledge around Git, compilers, build tools (maven and cmake), CI Tools, Programming skills, and Internals of tools we use
• Design and configure CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo specs (Both Java and yaml based) while collaborating with multiple stakeholders like Development, Project Managers, IT and Operations teams
• Participate in deployment & configuration of the application as needed on different non production environments
• Automation using Python
• Setting up Policies and guidelines for PRs in Bitbucket which includes quality gates like Sonar analysis, code reviews, bamboo build status etc.
• Doing upgrades and security patches to the web tools we use, Atlassian apps plus Artifactory and Sonar. This requires strong Linux server, Apache server and ansible knowledge

What you need to succeed

• Understanding the SDLC and Best practices
• Soft skills
• Strong scripting and Programming skills (Python, Bash)
• Experience with building Java ,C and Python applications. Preferably good knowledge of maven and cmake
• Strong knowledge of Linux environment
• Experience with CI tools like: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Artifactory , Sonar
• Experience with web hosting and patching. Preferably with Bamboo, Bitbucket, Artifactory and Sonar
• Knowledge and experience of Git internals
• Experience with Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Static analysis(preferably Sonar)
• Java programming experience is a plus
• Flexible with high workload and continuously changing environment
• Work experience with HFT organization is a plus
• Computing Science or a technical degree
• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar position

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer a competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

• Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Our own company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
• In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
• Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
• Weekly chair massages
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the Year End Party
• Global rotations between our offices worldwide
• and more!

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.