Trading Operations Engineer
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
Skills
About the Role
You will act as an Operations Engineer, taking ownership of the stability, performance, and scalability of proprietary trading systems and supporting infrastructure. You'll collaborate closely with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to ensure systems operate at peak efficiency across global markets, responding quickly to technical issues, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating latency bottlenecks.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in a Trading Operations, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role within a proprietary trading or high-frequency trading (HFT) environment
- Deep expertise in Unix/Linux systems, with proven ability to manage complex, latency-sensitive production environments
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, with additional experience in languages such as Go, Bash, or C++ considered a plus
- Practical understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, multicast, routing, and DNS, with experience performing network packet analysis
- Experience managing and supporting distributed systems and real-time infrastructure using Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker in production environments
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures, including tuning, monitoring, and scaling
- Working knowledge of database systems with a solid understanding of core database concepts
- Solid experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including automation, infrastructure orchestration, and observability tools
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in distributed, high-performance systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working effectively with cross-functional teams
- Self-driven and proactive mindset, with the ability to mentor junior team members
Responsibilities
- Respond quickly to any technical issues affecting in-house trading applications
- Optimize infrastructure for business needs
- Utilise project- and change-management tools to maintain and configure trading infrastructure
- Analyse and enhance exchange connectivity
- Investigate latency issues and bottlenecks
- Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve latency issues and improve overall system efficiency
- Monitor and document trading applications and IT infrastructure
- Collaborate with developers to design new and improved in-house applications
Benefits
- Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage
- In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
- Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
- In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
- Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
- Global rotations between our offices worldwide
