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Graduate Trading DevOps Engineer

Flow Traders is a market making firm headquatered in Amsterdam.

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Graduate Trading DevOps Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for individuals interested in joining our Graduate Trading DevOps team in Hong Kong. The ideal candidate is curious, methodical and a multi-tasker. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!

As a developer in the equity trading team, you'll be working directly with our Traders and Quant Researchers to provide solutions when they are needed - as soon as possible. That means taking a pragmatic approach to software development without cutting corners. We like to get things done and always strive to have working code in production. Trading is an incredibly dynamic and fast-paced environment, the requirements can change in the middle of the project, and you must be ready to adjust.

You will work on tools that generate a lot of business value. Although primarily working in Python, we are a language agnostic team - you might be helping a trader with a gnarly SQL query one day, doing post-trade analytics and monitoring in Python the next, and writing a Kafka Streams topology in Java the day after. We're looking for financial technologists that can think creatively about solutions.

Some of the Technologies we use in the Development Process:

  • Python 3
  • SQL
  • Kafka
  • Linux

What You Will Do

  • Work closely with Traders and Software Engineers to improve the current trading setup
  • Write Python code that will help traders monitor positions, risk, market-data, opportunities and operational performance
  • Align requirements, implementation, and standards with global Python engineers
  • Automate trader and quant operations, including start-/end-of-day processes and post-trade reporting
  • Standardize HK quantitative research tooling and integrate it with global Data Team pipelines
  • Maximize the use of internal data systems such as Kafka, Materialize, TimescaleDB and HDFS
  • Work closely with other Technology teams to ensure our systems are running to their maximum potential
  • Assist traders with their ad-hoc programming ideas and needs

What You Need to Succeed

  • Graduates or final year students pursuing a degree in Information Technology, Computer science or other related discipline
  • Candidates with 1-2 years of experience in a DevOps role will be considered as well
  • Advanced knowledge in Python programming. Experience with Java and C++ programming languages is beneficial but not mandatory.
  • Ability to write clear, optimized and efficient code
  • Basic knowledge and interest in the field of finance is advantageous
  • An entrepreneurial mindset that thrives on creative problem solving
  • Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
  • Good communication skills

Recruitment Process

  1. Submit your resume and motivation letter.
  2. Complete our Technical/Hackerank assessments.
  3. Meet members of the Trading Team
  4. Meet members of our Management Team

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

  • 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;
  • 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
  • and more!

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.