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Trading Automation Team Lead

Flow Traders
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/5/2025 CLOSED ON 1/5/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trading Automation Team Lead position at Flow Traders?

Flow Traders is looking for a Team Lead to join and lead our growing Trading Automation team in New York. 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.

As a member and lead of Trading Automation team, you will work within our technology landscape on creating direct impact for our core business through the development of applications that enhances data frameworks, streamline workflows, facilitate efficiency, and unlock growth prospects. In this role, you will be responsible for developing applications, services, mentoring team members and managing stakeholders. Your actions will directly contribute to the performance of the company. You will also get the opportunity to interact and work closely with the global Trading Automation team and different departments to gain a well-rounded knowledge of start-to-end trading landscape, how they function and integrate within our ecosystem.

What You Will Do

  • Manage and mentor a team of software engineers delivering solutions for trading and other business units
  • Collaborate with various local and global stakeholders for project management
  • Seek out and identify inefficiencies and implement automation solutions
  • Provide ongoing support and maintenance for team products

What You Need To Succeed

  • University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other quantitative fields
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • 7 years working experience in software development with extensive front-office & financial markets experience
  • Series certification (SIE 57) preferred
  • Strong software development skills in Python, Golang
  • Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems'
  • Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka (knowledge of distributed systems is advantageous)

At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company’s success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution.

Per the NYC Salary Transparency Law, the total compensation for this role includes a base of $200,000 - $250,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

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.

Salary : $200,000 - $250,000

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