Platform Performance Engineer – London

Salary:  up to £200k + bonus

Location: London

Summary

Not your standard algo trading firm, this leading market-maker takes pride in its flat hierarchy, teamwork, and rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry and attract the best talent.

They’re now seeking a Platform Performance Engineer to join one of the trading application teams, initially to focus on the performance (both throughput and latency) of cloud-based hosts, but also to be responsible for the performance of a global, co-located trading system.

To begin with, you’ll drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments and look at on-prem work, e.g. hardware-specific instrumentation & co-ordination of A/B performance experiments. Future projects may cover adapting AWS-based deployment to new clouds (e.g. GCP) and integrating all AWS provisioning into the trading team’s inventory management system over time.

Requirements

Passionate about closely examining impact-oriented performance work, especially in cloud

Familiarity with standard Linux tooling, particularly network diagnostics

Deep knowledge (or keen to acquire deep knowledge) of protocols including TCP, WebSockets, HTTP, TLS, FIX

Comfortable using a statically typed programming language

Experience with infrastructure-as-code techniques and tools, such as Terraform

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL

Collaborative and friendly environment where everyone is valued and treated as an individual

Outstanding benefits, including electric vehicle/cycle to work schemes, annual health screening, and workplace nursery scheme

Cutting-edge, beautiful offices in central London or Singapore