Electronic Trading Support Engineer (AVP) – FX & Fixed Income | Global Investment Bank
A leading global investment bank is seeking an AVP-level Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join its core trading technology team, supporting high-performance FX and Fixed Income trading systems. This team sits at the heart of the bank’s electronic trading function, responsible for trade flow, market connectivity, and ultra-low latency system performance. You’ll operate in a highly technical environment with direct exposure to trading infrastructure, network architecture, and front-office stakeholders.
Role Overview
As an Electronic Trading Support Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of the bank’s electronic trading platforms. The role combines hands-on production support with engineering-led initiatives, offering strong exposure to both infrastructure and business logic.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting business-critical electronic trading systems across FX and Fixed Income, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Operating within a Linux-based environment, utilising shell scripting and system-level troubleshooting.
- Managing and optimising trade flow and market connectivity within an ultra-low latency architecture.
- Working closely with networking technologies, including multicast, TCP/IP, and colocation environments.
- Monitoring system and network performance using tools such as ITRS, Corvil, Splunk, and Grafana.
- Proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing long-term engineering solutions.
- Driving automation and toil reduction through scripting and process improvement initiatives.
- Supporting change and release processes, as well as contributing to broader project delivery.
- Playing a key role in critical initiatives, including new trading venue onboarding and market structure updates.
- Collaborating closely with quant teams, gaining exposure to pricing logic, execution strategies, and trading behaviour.
- Building knowledge across low-level infrastructure, including datalinks, fibre connectivity, and multi-asset trading systems.
- Work within a follow-the-sun model, removing the need for an on-call rota while maintaining global system coverage.
Required Experience
- 4+ years’ experience supporting trading systems within a front-office environment.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, comfortable working at OS and shell level.
- Solid understanding of trade flow and electronic trading systems, ideally within FX or Fixed Income.
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including multicast, TCP/IP, and colocation environments.
- Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as ITRS, Splunk, Grafana, or Corvil.
- Scripting or programming experience (Python or Bash preferred).
- Engineering mindset, focused on automation, scalability, and long-term fixes over short-term solutions.
- Cloud exposure, ideally GCP.
Company Culture & Benefits
- High-performing front-office technology team experiencing significant investment and growth.
- Strong work-life balance, including 2 days per week remote working and relaxed hours.
- Clear progression pathways and strong internal mobility.
- Collaborative environment with close interaction between engineering and quants
- Streamlined two-stage interview process
- Benefits: 30 days annual leave, Non-contributory pension, Private healthcare (including family cover), Life assurance + additional perks
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