Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Our Platform Engineering team is looking for a versatile, full-stack engineer to help us build, scale, and manage the infrastructure that powers our critical applications. This isn't a conventional infrastructure role. We are seeking a hybrid talent who is equally skilled in developing in Python, troubleshooting modern React.js frontends and building resilient AWS infrastructure. You are a true polyglot, comfortable working across the entire stack. You will be a key player in bridging the gap between platform stability and application performance, ensuring our entire technology ecosystem is resilient, automated, and efficient.

What Will You Be Involved With?

Full-Stack Development & Support (50%)

• Full-Stack Troubleshooting: Support, debug, and enhance the entire application stack, from our React.js frontend to our Python backend services (Flask, Litestar, Celery) running on AWS ECS.
• Backend Service Support: Provide operational support for backend services and Kafka producers/consumers written in Python.
• Maintain Core Utilities: Take responsibility for our centralized management utility and our master API service, ensuring both the frontend and backend components are stable and performant.
• Collaborate on Solutions: Work closely with other engineers to diagnose issues and deliver solutions that span across infrastructure, backend, and frontend codebases.

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (50%)

• Design and Automate Infrastructure: Build, manage, and scale our AWS environment using Terraform, ensuring our infrastructure is repeatable, secure, and documented.
• Manage Kafka Ecosystem: Take ownership of our AWS MSK (Kafka) clusters. This includes provisioning, configuring topics and ACLs, managing cross-region replication with MSK Replicator, and ensuring high availability.
• Build CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, testing, and deployment of both infrastructure and applications.
• Design and implement: Secure VPC architectures, network segmentation, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Implement Observability: Integrate and manage monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

Proven Experience: You have a solid background as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or a full-stack Software Engineer with a deep passion for infrastructure.

Strong Python Development: You are highly proficient in Python for backend development. You are comfortable reading, debugging, and contributing to services built with frameworks like Flask or Litestar.

React.js Proficiency: You have hands-on professional experience building and/or supporting applications with React.js. You can effectively troubleshoot issues between the frontend UI and backend APIs.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Expert: Strong, hands-on experience with Terraform is essential and terraform wrappers such as teragram and terramate.

AWS Expertise: You have deep knowledge of core AWS services, especially ECS, MSK, RDS, DynamoDB, and IAM.

CI/CD Champion: You have proven experience building and managing automated deployment pipelines (e.g., using Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

Containerization Knowledge: You are skilled with containers and have experience deploying containerized applications on an orchestrator like ECS.

Bonus Points if You Have Experience With:

• Deep knowledge of Apache Kafka, particularly its administration, security, and replication on AWS MSK.
• Configuration management tools like Chef or Ansible.
• Implementing modern observability stacks with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud: AWS (ECS, MSK, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch)
• IaC & Config Management: Terraform, Chef
• Backend: Python (Flask, Litestar, Celery)
• Frontend: React.js
• Data & Streaming: Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL (RDS), DynamoDB, Zookeeper
• CI/CD: [e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions]

Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana

What We Bring to the Table

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

Health & Financial Security:

• Pension contributions

Time Off & Flexibility:

• Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities, and strengthens our company culture.
• 25 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
• One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
• Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
• An additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
• Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).

Work-Life Support & Resources:

• Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
• Milestone anniversary bonuses.

Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:

• Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs, or smoking cessation support).

Our Culture:

• Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.

About Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company's award-winning TT® platform connects to the world's major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world's leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT's technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies' global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Our Hiring Process

Stage 1: Applied

Stage 2: Review

Stage 3: Recruiter Screen

Stage 4: Technical Test

Stage 5: Hiring Manager Interview

Stage 6: Team Lead Interview

Stage 7: Final Interview

Stage 8: Hired

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