Job Description
Trade Operations Engineer – Quantitative Trading
Location: London or Singapore
Working Hours: 8:00 PM – 4:00 AM (London) / 4:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Singapore)
About the Opportunity
We are recruiting for a leading global quantitative trading firm seeking a Trade Operations Engineer to join its production trading operations team.
This opportunity is suited to an engineer with a strong interest in financial markets who enjoys working with complex trading systems, solving technical problems and operating in a fast-paced, business-critical environment.
You will work closely with trading and engineering teams to ensure the stability, reliability and effective risk management of live trading systems, while contributing to ongoing improvements in the firm's technology and operational processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor live trading systems, trading activity and associated risk exposures to ensure smooth daily operations.
- Investigate and resolve time-sensitive production issues, applying structured troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques.
- Support application configuration, software deployments and ongoing improvements to trading systems.
- Analyse application behaviour, identify bugs and contribute to minor code fixes and software enhancements.
- Work with complex, interconnected applications and processes operating across global trading environments.
- Collaborate with trading, development and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
- Develop a strong understanding of trading workflows, system dependencies and operational risk.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or another analytical discipline.
- Hands-on experience working with Linux operating systems.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience investigating software
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Key Skills
Linux operating systems
software deployments
software enhancements
code fixes
