Trading Desk Engineer

Trading Desk Engineer

Edgestream Partners is a tight-knit team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals who devote our talents to developing quantitative models of financial markets and using them to trade systematically around the world and around the clock.

Edgestream's culture has more in common with research laboratories and technology startups than with traditional finance. We prize curiosity, creativity, diligence, and intellectual honesty. We focus on the long term, working together to build elegant and general systems that endure and scale as we grow. And we incentivize our employees to cooperate and share ideas, because we know that compounding our efforts magnifies our achievements. The result is a company where smart, dedicated effort can have a major impact.

We've been in the hedge fund business since 2003, and we're still growing. We're looking for talented and driven people who can grow with us in the years ahead.

About The Job

The production group at Edgestream ensures that our systematic trading engine operates optimally in the global financial markets. Our close-knit team of skilled professionals leverages expertise in software, data, and analytics to drive success—measured in real-time, every day.

We are seeking a Trading Desk Engineer to become a high-impact member of our trading operations team. This role sits directly on the trading desk, bridging markets and technology. You will monitor and support live trading systems, resolve production issues in real time, and develop tools to improve automation and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, support, and troubleshoot global trading systems in real time, with particular focus on night-shift coverage.
• Work directly with trade-ops team and production team to ensure smooth execution and accurate risk reporting.
• Develop, optimize, and automate trading desk tools, alerts, and dashboards.
• Perform rapid code fixes and deploy changes to production environments during live market hours.
• Provide on-call support on a rotating basis, escalating issues quickly and clearly.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in computer science, math, financial engineering, or related.
• 2–6 years of hands-on trading support, trade desk technology, or electronic trading operations.
• Proven ability to debug live systems under pressure.
• Market knowledge across equities, futures, FX, or derivatives.
• Strong coding (Python preferred), plus UNIX/Linux, SQL, FIX protocol.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface between traders and engineers.
• Willingness to work night shift on rotational basis and provide on-call coverage.

Some of the benefits of working at Edgestream:

• Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.
• Fantastic resources, accumulated over decades, for turning ideas into reality.
• Comprehensive, first-class benefits (including excellent medical and dental insurance, 401(k), HRA, FSA, life insurance, daily catered lunch, and an onsite gym).
• For qualified employees, the opportunity to invest in our funds.