Job Description
Hudson River Trading is seeking an Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join its Trade Operations team. This role involves managing HRT’s live trading environment and will be responsible for configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s trading platform, handling risk, regulatory, and development tasks.
The Electronic Trading Support Engineer will support live trading, handle order flow, respond to market alerts, and interface with exchanges.
Responsibilities: - Support live trading during US market hours
- Handle order flow from HRT’s trading desks
- Respond to external market alerts and outages
- Interface with exchanges & other external parties to support trading
Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Engineering, Physics, Math, etc.)
- Working knowledge of UNIX systems
- Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
- Excellent communication skills
- Incredibly organized, with a high attention to detail
- Excited to work independently in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
- Understanding of Market Data/Order Entry systems and an interest in modern electronic markets
The role offers: - Opportunity to work on a broad range of projects
- Work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment