Systems Reliability Engineering Intern, IEX
Equity trading exchange
Job no longer available
Equity trading exchange
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To innovate with a purpose: to drive trading performance for market participants.
Role
Who you are
- Linux – You know your way around and are comfortable on a command line. Maybe you’ve tinkered with a Raspberry Pi
- Programming – You enjoy programming and have developed an application before. You are familiar with the basic fundamentals of software design, data structures, and algorithms. You use a versioning system, preferably git. You write tests for your code, or at least attempt to, more often than not
- Data Analysis – You enjoy working with data to deliver interesting insights. Maybe you’ve even written some Jupyter notebooks, batch, or other types of large-scale processing
- Automation – You’ve thrown shell or other scripting language type of scripts together to automate things you don’t need to spend your time on. maybe even have graduated to something more like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet. Unnecessary manual processes that can be easily automated frustrate you, and you do what you can to prevent yourself from being a human keyboard
- Monitoring – Any monitoring experience is great. We’re more interested in your thought process and having an approach that is thoughtful about what to monitor and why, along with designing actionable alerts
- Nice-to-Haves – The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, willing to engage in and be calm during stressful situations, and able to communicate openly and effectively. We’re looking for someone willing to learn (and teach!) as much as possible and take on increasing levels of responsibility while having fun and helping us continue to deliver and operate reliable systems
What the job involves
- IEX is looking for a Systems Reliability Engineering Intern to join our team responsible for building, maintaining, and operating our systems
- You’ll work on the team responsible for daily operations and evolution of IEX’s systems, which support our exchange and other ancillary businesses
- You’ll have opportunities to develop your knowledge of system design, reliability, distributed systems engineering, capacity planning, and performance analysis
- You’ll get to work alongside experts and learn all about the inner workings of the US capital markets and equities trading
- You’ll get hands on experience with customized Linux distributions, building cloud infrastructure, developing CLI tools, automation, and working with large datasets
- The role also comes with the knowledge that the work you are doing actually matters, both to the company and to the world at large
Our take
Innovations in fintech infrastructure have dramatically changed how people invest, but despite such developments, investors still face limitations when trading assets. Exchanges often list out-of-date pricing information which limits investors' abilities to make strategic investment decisions, a problem that is heightened through knock-on effects from other unstable stock prices.
IEX provides a registered US stock exchange for investors and broker-dealers, focussing on providing a more stable trade execution experience than existing exchanges. The company achieves this through its "Speed Bump" strategy that delays trades to gather up-to-date pricing information whilst assessing them for price stability, ensuring that trades are not executed based on stale data, and helping to notify other orders to react to other stock price stability levels.
Whilst the company must share the stock exchange sector with many competitors, IEX show great promise through its focus on maintaining pricing accuracy and stability. The company also stands out by providing a cloud platform for the selling, sharing, and use of financial data, in addition to an investment lifecycle advice tool for institutional investors.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2014
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2013
$24.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.9m
Company benefits
- 100% Employer-Paid Benefit Premiums: Medical, dental and vision benefits premiums covered 100% for employees, spouses, and dependents
- One MEdical Membership: 100% company-paid annual membership to One Medical primary care services
- Matched 401(k), Equity & Bonus Offerings: Competitive compensation packages including equity and bonus opportunities and 401(k) with annual company match
- Learning Stipend and Non-Profit Donation Match: $5000 annual learning stipend and $1000 annual match for donations to 5013(c) organizations of your choice
- In-Office Gym: Fully equipped with weights, treadmills, a Peloton bike, and locker rooms with showers
- Lunch and Learns: Have lunch on IEX and listen to co-workers present on their areas of expertise
- Hybrid Working Environments: Teams determine how and where they work – home, on the road, or in office
- Flexible Vacation Policy: With unlimited PTO, recharge your batteries and come to work ready to innovate
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: Offered for primary and secondary caregivers at the birth, adoption, or placement of a child
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Bradley Katsuyama
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founding Board Member of The Public Health Company. Spent 11 years at RBC Capital Markets, ultimately as Managing Director of US Cash Equity Trading.
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