Application Support Engineer - US EQ

Job Title: Trade Application Support Engineer, US Equities

Work model: 4x a week in office, Manhattan

Comp: 200-500k total compensation

Summary: A leading multi strat hedge fund is looking for an application support engineer to join their growing equities team. A successful candidate will have automation experience in Python. The role will have a high level of interaction with the investment staff including Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Analysts, to proactively discover and understand issues and potential workflow/system improvements. They must have experience directly supporting the demanding needs of a growing equities business.

Responsibilities:

• Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of Equities focused applications, including Equity Trading, Position, PnL, Risk, Reporting, Research and compliance systems.
• Enhance, support and maintain the firm's Equity front, middle and back-office systems
• Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities
• Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence.
• Work with external vendors to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements
• Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on rotation
• Work in person 4+ times a week

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience supporting an Equities investment/trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendors
• A thorough understanding of Equity products e.g. Cash Equities, Futures, Options. Must be able to discuss details with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Operations and Risk Managers.
• Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systems
• Experience scripting tools in python and/or PowerShell for support purposes
• SQL experience across varioabase implementations
• Experience supporting OMS/EMS equity platforms such as Flextrade, Virtu Triton, SpiderRock
• Experience in supporting applications hosted on Linux, Cloud (Kubernetes, AWS)
• Knowledge of Messaging platforms - Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flow
• Familiarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSys
• Experience using/building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, LogicMonitor