Descripción:

TradeStation is an

on-line brokerage firm seeking to level the playing field for self-directed investors and traders, empowering them to claim their individual financial edge. At TradeStation, we're continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and relentless search for innovation. We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a generous PTO policy. POSITION SUMMARY: Do you love the challenge of designing and building mission-critical low-latency distributed systems that handle millions of events per second? If so, we have an opportunity for you as a developer, and self-driven innovation leader on an Agile team building high performance, real-time systems for financial market data networks. A key part of the role is delivering new and innovative services to our customers by modernizing our architecture and software engineering practices. Success in this role requires a strong technical background with a high degree of proficiency and creativity. The role requires an enthusiastic willingness to creatively solve problems for which there are no pre-existing blueprints to follow. ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design and develop new services, unit tests, and automation tools based on abstract guidelines and requirements.

Be a driver of innovation, technical thought leader, and mentor to engineers as applicable

Work in a cross-functional team in a fast-paced high-output results driven DevOps environment

Maintain and improve existing systems and applications with a focus on optimizing both systems and workflows

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES: Required:

Demonstrated technical expertise in a hands-on role. Leading by example is expected of all engineers.

Familiarity working in a fluid Agile environment and demonstrated success with structured testing practices such as automated unit testing, regression testing, TDD and continuous delivery. Able to perform high pressure triage.

Experience with distributed and scalable software architectures

Mastery of 1 or more modern general-purpose programming languages, such as C++ or C#

Familiar with scripting and automation (e.g. Bash, Powershell, Ruby, Python etc.)

Experience with communication protocols (low level TCP/UDP/IP, WebSockets, Protobufs, HTTP)

Knowledgeable about multi-threading, inter-process communications and event handling

Preferred:

C++ development experience

Experience with low-latency software development

Involvement in open-source projects with a demonstrated portfolio

Cloud architecture and deployment (AWS, Stacker, MSK, ElasticCache)

Hands-on Docker or Kubernetes experience

Knowledge of financial markets/trading

Understanding of SQL and database programming, including NoSQL and document DBs (Redis)

Cross platform Windows and Linux development and experience porting from Windows to Linux

REST API design and API lifecycle management

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Mathematics or equivalent

Minimum 1 years of relevant experience