Senior Systems Software Engineer, Hudson River Trading
Automated trading algorithms developer
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Automated trading algorithms developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hudson River Trading's mission is to bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.
Role
Who you are
- BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field
- 5+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python
- Experience using automation to solve problems and improve processes efficiently
- Acts effectively as a team player but also works well independently
- Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining a high level of attention to detail
- Familiar with open-source software
- Strong Python programming skills
- Must be able to debug and analyze problems quickly
- Must be able to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
- Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems
Desirable
- Understanding of Debian operating system
- Proven experience with SaltStack internals or platform ownership
- Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
- Understanding of networking protocols
What the job involves
- The Systems Development team at Hudson River Trading builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage our server and network infrastructure
- As a Systems Software Engineer, you will develop tools in Python with a focus on improving development experience for users of our configuration management system, SaltStack
- This role offers a unique opportunity to impact a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure
- You’ll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage and more reliable. Strong Python skills, development experience, and some experience with Unix are required
- Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration
- Integrating and extending configuration management modules (SaltStack and Ansible) and tools
- Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues
- Writing configuration management (SaltStack) code to build, deploy, and maintain new services
- Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform, representing Salt users internally
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Hudson River Trading is a quantitative trading firm founded by a team of experienced venture capital experts, including computer scientists, mathematicians, and software engineers. It aims to bring a more scientific and mathematical approach to trading, operating a computing environment for the research and development of trading algorithms.
HRT's team includes a number of mathematicians, engineers and physicists. This academic approach has paid off, with HRT now having several offices around the world and boasting billions in trading capital. The firm is also a part of the DeFi Pyth network, marking a move towards crypto equity, which gives it access to an even wider range of investors and capital.
Although the trading market is crowded, HRT has proved the value of its code-first approach to trading and hence found a space for itself. HRT now invests in new blockchain companies that share its values. The company continues to innovate, which should provide the path to finding further success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- MERIT: Our people are motivated by a culture that promotes hard work and intellect over corporate politics.
- MEALS & SNACKS: HRTers enjoy breakfast and lunch together (chef-prepared in NYC, reimbursement or catered options for other offices), healthy snacks, a coffee bar, and a well-stocked beer and wine fridge.
- COMFORT: If you come to work dressed up, expect to explain what you’re doing that night for the rest of the day.
- FITNESS: On-site cardio and weight room in NYC (fitness reimbursement for other offices), regular yoga classes, and a 7-Minute Workout club.
- SOCIAL AT HRT: Our social calendar includes regular happy hours, outings, team dinners, and sports.
- PLAY TANK: Unwind at the end of a long day with video games, board games, foosball, or table tennis.
- VACATION: Generous paid vacation plus personal days and market holidays (or days in lieu).
- HEALTH: Generously subsidized healthcare coverage, vision and company paid dental insurance, paid time off for sick days, paid medical/disability leave, and fully covered access to a mental health counselor, as well as access to the Modern Health platform.
- FAMILY TIME: 12-week paid parental leave policy and family friendly events.
- EDUCATION: Tuition assistance, professional development, and on-the-job training.
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Jason Caroll
(Managing Director)Previously worked as an Analyst at Tower Research Capital.
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