Production Engineer | Experienced Hire

Susquehanna International Group, LLP•Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), PA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

We are currently seeking a Trading Operations Support Specialist to join our Production Engineering Team for one of our automated trading desks. As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with trading strategy and infrastructure development teams and be an important part of getting new technologies and strategies configured and deployed. You will work directly with our technologists, traders and quantitative research analysts to develop tools to monitor and support the production environment on a highly automated trading desk as well as developing and maintaining software build tools on Linux. You will have the opportunity to learn market microstructure and how the system setup and system risk relates to the trading. What you can expect from us: Real Impact: You’ll be designing and optimizing systems that process massive amounts of data, ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software solutions make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better. Collaboration: Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions. Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow. Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Demonstrated proficiency in scripting languages (Python, bash, shell) required
Strong interpersonal and communication skills for working with traders, quants and other developers required
Ability to work in a fast paced environment required
Ability to work in office 5 days per week

Nice To Haves

Excellent quantitative skills are strongly preferred
Good understanding of financial instruments and markets is a plus

Responsibilities

Develop scripts for monitoring the state of the production environment and its dependencies for an automated trading desk
Work with the Platform Engineering team to assist in server imaging, testing and deployment
Act as a liaison between the trading desk and network, security, market data and platform teams for system level production issues and new setups
Monitor and support a highly distributed production system
Provide multi-level support for traders, strategists and quantitative researchers