Operations Python Developer
Hudson River Trading’s Operations team is responsible for managing the entirety of our live, production trading environment. This team plays an important role, acting as the glue that combines the work of multiple departments across HRT, to make our trading a reality. Python Developers on the Ops team work on automation and development projects that touch every part of the trade lifecycle.
Projects areas include, but are not limited to:
- Market access
- Monitoring and compliance
- Algorithmic strategy evaluation and management
- Performance tuning
- Trading automation
- Position management
- Accounting and finance reporting
- Database management
We're looking for people who love technology and want to work on a broad range of projects using various tools to best solve the problem at hand. Excellent communication is a must, along with a can-do attitude.
Responsibilities
- Write deployment and monitoring systems (everything from the backend processes to the user-visible desktop GUIs) in Python to help
- Architect and design enhancements for our global trading post trade system, mainly using Python
- Develop tools to automate our daily trading processes and help our real-time analysts discover and investigate internal and external outages
- Write automation jobs in Python that support the mechanics of managing our global trading network
- Help us release a lot of code (our main repo deploys after each commit) that reaches into every office and department at HRT while using the latest technologies and techniques in Python and Software Engineering to drive improvements to all our systems, new or old
- Extract, review, analyze, and reconcile data from multiple databases, servers, and platforms
- Work on tasks with a variety of time scopes: quick fixes to existing processes and long-term direction setting
- Maintain and improve existing internal and external processes
- Take ownership of the continual drive for automation on the team
- Work with all the other teams at HRT (all of them! We do projects for Algo, Core, Finance, Business Development, Systems, and People Ops) to ensure that their technical solutions will work cohesively and at scale
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of Python development experience
- Working experience with relational databases, VBA, and SQL
- Mastery of multitasking and extraordinary time management skills
- Ability to navigate large interconnected projects while also paying close attention to details
- Experience with building front ends with React/JavaScript or PyQt is a plus
- Experience with gRPC and trio is a plus
- Excellent design, debugging, and problem solving skills
- Experience deploying and maintaining applications. You’ve seen an application from the design phase through the production phase
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication
- Comfortable debugging networked programs on a UNIX terminal
- You can look at code, figure out how it works, and how to make it better
- You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do
- Effective communication, both verbal and written, is a must - this role will work with many teams across HRT
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Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
