Software Engineer

Location Amsterdam
Discipline: Financial Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Lewis Piper

Contact email: lewis.piper@venturesearch.com
Job ref: 2562
Published: 2 months ago
Venture Search is working with a proprietary trading firm based in Amsterdam that are recruiting for a software engineer to join their team. The successful incumbent will sit within a high-performance team, working alongside some of the industry's best quantitative analysts, strategists, data scientists, and traders.

Your Responsibilities
  • Tracking down new ways to streamline, gain efficiency and to break down technical challenges into business-automated trading solutions.
  • Establishing and tracking down metrics for regular improvements.
  • Prioritizing work on tasks of strategic value and manage multiple projects at a time.
  • Supporting the implementation of new business and associated Tech system/process changes.
  • Participating in all aspects of hands-on software development and maintenance including writing code, test automation, manual testing, deployments, troubleshooting, and production support.
  • Proactively managing the trade-offs between scalability, reliability, developer/ops overhead and infrastructure cost of building scalable data pipelines.
  • Developing code that is designed to be reusable and that can be shared amongst other teams.
Qualifications
  • BSc/MSc in in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related STEM field.
  • Prioritizing work on tasks of strategic value and manage multiple projects at a time.
  • Employing a methodological and consistent approach to solving problems and detail oriented
  • Deep knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C# and/or C++ and developing application in Python
  • Significant experience working with Postgres, MongoDB, Docker, Kafka/EventHub and Kubernetes.
  • Expert knowledge of Azure, AWS or GCP and management of large-scale data pipeline system.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and eager to drive all test automation and CI/CD test efforts.
  • In-depth understanding and acquaintance with Linux-based concepts and micro-service deployments
  • Desired capabilities with ModelOps in creating, testing, deploying, and monitoring, ML or non-ML Model
  • Ideal experience within a Finance, Trading Firm, Startup or Hedge Fund environment, or a strong affinity with automated Trading.