Trade Support Engineer

Our client is seeking a Trade Support Engineer to join a technology team supporting business-critical trading applications and front-office users within a fast-paced financial services environment. The contract is for an initial 6 months with the potential to extend and will be a fully in office role in London

The successful candidate will combine strong technical troubleshooting skills with an understanding of trading environments, taking ownership of production issues, investigating data and application problems, and working closely with traders, developers and other technology teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical and production support for front-office trading applications and platforms.
• Investigate and resolve trade, application, data and system issues in a time-sensitive environment.
• Use Python to automate support processes, build tooling and improve operational efficiency.
• Use SQL to query, analyse and troubleshoot trade and application data.
• Work extensively within Linux/Unix environments, including log analysis, process monitoring and incident investigation.
• Monitor application health, identify recurring issues and support root-cause analysis.
• Work closely with traders, portfolio teams, developers and infrastructure teams to resolve production issues.
• Support application releases, upgrades and post-deployment validation.
• Help improve monitoring, automation and support processes to reduce manual intervention and operational risk.

About You

• Strong hands-on Python experience, particularly scripting and automation.
• Strong SQL skills, including querying and investigating large datasets.
• Good knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and command-line troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in a production environment
• Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities.
• Comfortable working directly with technical and business stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to prioritise and resolve high-impact production incidents.

Desirable:

• Previous experience within a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank or other financial services organisation.
• Experience supporting front-office trading systems and working directly with traders.
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle, order/execution workflows and financial markets.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling and production support best practices.
• Experience automating repetitive support and operational processes.