Application Support Engineer

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. As an Application Support Engineer on the Unified Platform Support team, you'll be part of a tight knit and expanding team of support analysts at a top tier proprietary trading firm. You will be working hand in glove with developers providing sophisticated research and compliance tools to the users across the firm.

Requirements

• Previous experience supporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting high performance applications in the financial markets industry
• Experience supporting Linux environments
• Experience working with market data or order data systems
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with transfer protocols for financial data (FIX, native protocols)
• Exposure to object orientated code
• Familiarity with version control software (git or svn)
• Experience with cloud computing, AWS preferred
• SQL experience including queries/updates/table creation/basic database maintenance
• Exposure to data technologies such as Kafka, Spark or Delta Lake is useful but not mandatory.

Benefits

• Work with low latency financial market data and learn the intricacies of how market data feeds and electronic exchanges work
• Work with order data across a vast array of markets and asset classes
• Support systems processing that data for Surveillance and Regulatory Reporting functions
• Work with sophisticated analytics tools that are custom built by our team of developers
• Use the latest technology stacks such as AWS, Java 17, Python 3, HDF5, Kubernetes, Kafka and Argo
• Is globally distributed across Europe and North America supporting global systems.