Trading Applications Specialist

Please only apply to the one job you feel best fits your skillset and experience. If our team feels you are better suited for another role, we will reach out about the alternate opportunity.Position Overview:As a Trading Applications Specialist at Squarepoint, you will work in a global team of exceptional technologists with the primary focus of ensuring reliability and stability of our trading services. You will develop a deep understanding of financial markets, combining this knowledge with strong technical skills to support systematic trading applications and other critical software.You will step into a high responsibility role, taking ownership of incident management and root cause elimination through process improvements. Trading Applications Specialists drive continuous innovation via automation and optimisation of our daily workflows. In this role you will learn how we manage application outages and minimise their negative impact on our large-scale global trading operation.Typical Day:Carry out ready for business checks ahead of the 'start-of-day' to ensure a smooth market open, resolving any failures.Monitor trading applications and execution strategies, utilising our proprietary observability frameworks.Carry out post trade checks and resolve reporting issues.Leverage your critical thinking skills and manage outages that impact the trading environment, reducing production downtime.Work on a wide range of projects, including: onboarding of new applications, services and products into the production environment or developing tools and scripts to automate operational tasks. Required Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics or a similar disciplineUp to 4 years experience in a similar environment, buy or sell sideExperience with Linux, Python, BashKnowledge of at least one of the following asset classes: equities, fixed income, derivatives, etc.Exceptional communication skills, attention to detail and ability to work within a global teamEagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with usCurious and driven by the challenge of solving new problems. Additional: Experience with either of: kdb+/q, MSSQL, PostgreSQLExperience working with the FIX protocolUnderstanding of TCP/IP concepts