Trading Systems Engineer

Trading Systems Engineer

  • Amsterdam

As Trading Systems Engineer at Da Vinci, you’ll work closely with a small team of highly skilled traders and engineers. You’ll be responsible for managing our trading systems, making sure they run smoothly in day-to-day operations, with future growth in mind.

As our trading systems are highly customised, balancing stability with ongoing change is one of the key challenges in this job. Our engineers often need to learn on the go, so we are looking for people who enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee system performance, stability and uptime
  • Automate the environment and testing new technology fads
  • Architect, implement, maintain and monitor our rapidly growing intercontinental production environment
  • Manage not only “what” is running in production, but also “how” these production systems are behaving
  • Address potential failures and bottlenecks before they have the chance to hurt the firm

Requirements:

  • 0-5 years of experience managing mission-critical infrastructure and software support (in a trading environment it’s a plus)
  • Intimate knowledge of networking, hardware and OSs (Windows, Linux)
  • Knowledge of cloud environments is a plus
  • Familiar with tooling and best practices regarding change, life cycle and incident management, as well as health and performance monitoring of production systems
  • Proficient with scripting (e.g., bash, python)
  • Quick at analysing issues and uncovering their root causes
  • Eager to learn and understand all aspects of the trading environment
  • Ability to spot inefficiencies and proactive in optimising systems
  • Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience

Benefits:

  • An opportunity to learn from the best in the field
  • Base salary starting at EUR 65k, with possibility to grow quickly
  • Excellent variable pay based on your own and the firm’s performance
  • Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
  • A relocation package when moving from abroad, including relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
  • Meals during work hours
  • Social events and after-work drinks
  • Reimbursement of travel costs
  • Sponsored gym membership
  • In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)

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Graduate Quant Trader

Da Vinci is a unique proprietary trading firm, focusing on volatility trading, arbitrage and market making across major exchanges worldwide. We identify opportunities, trade based on in-house developed strategies and provide liquidity to the markets thus making them more efficient. Our philosophy towards work is best captured by the saying “Be good, work hard and great things will happen”. We are meritocratic by nature and believe that empowering talent in our organization is the only way forward. Our employees are our greatest asset and therefore we are constantly looking for smart, talented and passionate people to strengthen our team helping to support our growth plans. As Trader at Da Vinci, together with a strong and fun team of highly skilled researchers and engineers, you will perform at the highest level with the goal to beat the markets and build one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world. Responsibilities: Building strategies with the Quant team for trading Digital Assets Risk management of team positions Improving and refining the infrastructure and setup Constantly analysing trades to improve existing strategies Coming up with new trading strategies for current and new markets Evaluating new markets for opportunities Requirements: Background in Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or equivalent studies Ability to take fast decisions under pressure Understanding of risk and reward patterns Advanced mental maths skills Experience in trading on Digital Assets exchanges is a plus Good communication skills Attention to detail Analytical approach to solving complex problems Competitive but cooperative attitude Proactiveness and entrepreneurial mindset Flexibility to work outside of regular business hours or on weekends Benefits: A once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing young company A very exciting and dynamic work environment Comprehensive theoretical and practical training by some of the most qualified professionals in the industry The freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion Sign on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 80k, excellent variable pay and career prospects Outstanding performance is also rewarded with share holding in company For people coming from abroad we provide a relocation package and expat service Meals during work hours Reimbursement of travel costs Sponsored gym membership In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games) If you think you are ready for the challenge, you have an entrepreneurial mindset and you are ready to build on a great future with Da Vinci, please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the apply button.
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