What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trade Support Engineer position at Quanta Search?
Our client is an innovative, highly technical trading firm that helps the world price and manage risk. Their culture is highly collaborative across traders, quants, technologists and operations teams who work together to solve the toughest problems our markets have to offer.
The Trade Support Engineer (TSE) works closely with production trading desks to maximize the efficiency of the team's trading tools and software. In this role you will both proactively and reactively identify and resolve issues when outages occur. You will partner closely with traders and operations members to identify software bugs and then relay that information back to development for patching. Through a close relationship with your trading desk, you will be in a position to analyze day to day activities and suggest or design tools and software improvements that will provide benefit to the traders and the systems you support.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
PRODUCTION TRADE SUPPORT (80% OF YOUR TIME):
- Sit next to traders on the trade desk to allow full immersion in the trading workflows
- Provide level one and level two support of trading system issues affecting your desk
- Utilize a “fix it twice” mentality to create tactical solutions to get systems stable again but then follow up with the strategic fix soon after
- Advance issues to other teams as appropriate through detailed log documentation and snippets, so they can get up to speed quickly
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES (20% OF YOUR TIME):
- Create automated scripts and applications to improve operational workflows and team efficiency any time you find yourself doing a task twice
- Improve software reliability and stability through performance optimizations
- Partner with Trading Systems Operations to schedule and communicate software releases for your trading desks
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix command shell navigation and basic SQL knowledge (Python experience is also a plus)
- Ability to operate in a high pressure, time-critical trading environment where you observe, analyze, and act quickly to solve problems
- Excellent interpersonal and teaming skills to bridge communications between trading and technology
- Self-motivated with strong time management and a sense of ownership
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity, and the ability to learn from mistakes
- Electronic trading experience and/or familiarity with FIX/Exchange protocols is a plus