Job Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications to support the application
- Execute and automate the release process and manage changes for applications and environments.
- Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, platform, and application subject matter experts to promote reliability through communication and sharing best practices.
- Investigate issues reported by Production Management.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
- Proficiency in Python development; knowledge of C++ is advantageous.
- Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with minimal oversight, managing tasks from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
- Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins.
- Experience in identifying problem or opportunity areas, developing and implementing necessary fixes and changes, and championing new technologies/processes from design to production.
- Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover, and designing, building, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Effective collaboration with teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Lead Software Engineers, and experience in mentoring and guiding team members constructively across various disciplines.
- Demonstrated proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure, with experience primarily in trading-based applications in Linux.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Knowledge of electronic trading and equities, futures, and options exchange connectivity in global markets is desirable.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.