W.I.S.V. 'Christiaan Huygens'
Graduate Trading Systems Engineer
About the Role:
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
systems are behaving - Address potential failures and bottlenecks to proactively prevent
obstacles
Requirements:
- 0-2 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 (Linux,
Windows) - 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 be proactive in optimising systems
- Strong communication 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 of EUR 70k to 80k, 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)