Senior Platform Engineer
Full TimeJob Overview
We are currently seeking driven and talented Platform Engineers who thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state-of-the-art trading applications. TT’s platform is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders worldwide. As a Platform Engineer, you will work on our award-winning trading platform, which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading, and more.
What Will You Be Involved With?
What you can expect during the initial training period (anticipated 3-6 months - the length of the training period might vary depending on the candidate).
- Work closely with the team to learn how our tools and processes facilitate development, testing and deployment of backend applications
- Gain understanding of our development process and begin bug fix and feature development
- Learn the operational responsibilities of our team, shadow team members during their on-call rotation and begin on-call rotation with a mentor
- Participate in recurring evaluations that will serve as checkpoints to ensure progress
What you can expect to be responsible for and continually own, after successful completion of the training period.
- Continue to support existing processes, tools and applications
- Develop and oversee rollout of new deployment features
- Continue to develop new deployment methodologies (e.g., containers and/or Kubernetes)
- Perform change execution and operational duties during on-call rotation (requires night/weekend work)
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews
What You Bring to the Table
- Development experience and proficiency with AWS, Python, Automation Tools (e.g., Github Actions), deployment systems (e.g., Chef), Terraform, Kubernetes (Docker)
- Comfortable in a Linux environment
- Experience designing and automating infrastructure: building, managing, and scaling AWS environments using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure is repeatable, secure, and well-documented.
- Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, testing, and deployment of both infrastructure and applications.
- Test automation, monitoring, NFRs, build quality first
- Clean coding style with emphasis on readability
- Familiarity with Git is a plus
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical requirements
- Fluent spoken and written English, ability to communicate via whiteboard and produce architecture diagrams and documentation