Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
The Front Office Trade Application Support Engineer is a key member of the operations and investment teams supporting live lifecycle of trade processes, including but not limited to: startup, live automated trading system monitoring and triage, outages, reporting, and analysis functions. This person will work closely with software/network/systems engineers, portfolio managers, and various developer and operations teams within Verition. The candidate is required to have a strong technical background in Linux environment, experience in internal front office low latency trade support, attention to detail, ability to multitask with changing requirements, and urgency to tackle live production issues.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor in-house state-of-the-art low latency Marketdata and Order Management Systems and provide first level and primary support with attention to follow up on tasks and post mortems
- Post trade processing and resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner
- Software Deployment and support; following best practices for Production in financial markets in a low latency environment with deterministic and robust systems
- Ownership of production footprint, e.g. identify system improvements, automate daily tasks using Python, and document existing and new workflows
- Ownership of production footprint, e.g. identify system improvements, automate daily tasks, document existing and new workflows
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Hands on experience with low latency market data and order management systems, internal or third party
- Technical proficiency with Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, with the ability to debug scripts and code
- Working knowledge of FIX trading protocol
- Experience with NUMA nodes/x86 architecture, UDP multicast, hardware accelerated. Understanding of difference between TCP vs. UDP networking
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required
- Excellent communication and organizational skills with friendly demeanor across teams
- Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities and meet deadlines; mentorship of junior members
Nice to Have:
- C++ debugging experience
- Understanding of and ability to describe the architecture of modern matching engine or market data distribution system or order management system
- Technical proficiency with Windows, AWS, Airflow, Bash, and Powershell
- DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker
- Ability to automate using Python
- Ability to troubleshoot network, authentication, and file transfer issues
- Experience with DataDog/Zabbix/PagerDuty and application monitoring frameworks
- Experience with Redwood RunMyJob and familiarity with Cron, or similar job scheduling frameworks
- Experience with New Relic/Zabbix/PagerDuty and application monitoring frameworks
Salary Range
$100,000—$150,000 USD
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What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]
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