Production Engineer - Trading Systems

We’re hiring a Senior Front Office Production Engineer to join the technical operations team behind a leading global electronic trading platform in fixed income and derivatives - supporting a live, real-time trading ecosystem spanning 40+ markets, three time zones, and thousands of institutional clients.

This isn’t ticket-queue support, and it isn’t pure FIX connectivity or monitoring work either. You’ll be the person who traces a problem all the way down through the application, into the OS, into the database, into the network, until you actually know what broke and why, often before a developer even gets pulled in. You’ll look at a wall of alerts, work out what actually matters in the next 90 seconds, and make the right call while explaining it clearly to the people relying on you.

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similarly technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on depth that shows the same analytical grounding
• Comfortable across Windows and Linux at a genuine troubleshooting level
• SQL fluency and scripting ability (Python, PowerShell, or similar) that you’ve used to debug a live problem, not only to build a report or automate a task
• Ability to read object-oriented code (C++, Java, or similar) and reason about what it’s doing, even if you don’t write it daily
• A calm head under pressure and the instinct to communicate while you’re still mid-investigation, not after
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule, including early starts, evenings, and a weekend maintenance rotation

• Diagnose issues fast across logs, code, OS, and network - not just identify that something’s wrong, but why, down to the root cause
• Write and read code to investigate live issues, not just to automate afterwards - you’ll use scripting as a diagnostic tool, not just a productivity one
• Be the technical bridge between engineering, the trading desk, and clients when things go sideways
• Build the automation that means the same incident doesn’t happen twice
• Take part in go-lives, DR testing, and configuration management for a platform that genuinely cannot go dark