As a Graduate Engineer, you will begin your career at Flow Traders with an extensive one-year training program. To start, you will learn everything you need to know about our core business, the different departments at Flow Traders and how technology plays a key role in improving our proprietary trading platform. The core of the program will involve collaborating with our Technology teams and your fellow graduate engineers on various projects, which cover multiple areas of our technology landscape. Throughout the program, you will receive continuous support from your dedicated mentor, not only in the field of technology, but also in your personal development.
What You Will Do
Work on applications that support the core business of the company
Improve our proprietary trading platform by writing efficient and performant code, designing new and innovative solutions
Maintain existing systems with a focus on low latency and stability
Work in small business-aligned teams and follow agile practices to ensure fast adaptability
Work side-by-side with Trading and other relevant teams every day, which creates swift feedback loops and immediate insight into the value that each change provides
Maintain shared libraries, encourage code re-use, and continuously evolve our views on application architecture
Manage, maintain, and shape infrastructures, develop and enact contingency plans and provide secondary and tertiary support to our teams
Frequent contact with internal and external stakeholders (traders, data centers/colocations, third party suppliers)
Proactively lookout for ways to optimise performance
Design, develop, and implement platform solutions utilizing containerization technologies (Docker, etc.) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes)
Deploy and manage cloud-native applications on the platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
Implement and manage industry standard monitoring solutions to collect and analyse platform metrics for performance optimization and troubleshooting
What You Need To Succeed
University degree in Computer Science or similar
Penultimate year or final year HK university students
Interest to specialize in C++/Python/Rust is required
Moderate knowledge of Linux and Git is required
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible is a plus
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
Experience with automation tools (Bash scripting, Python, etc.) for infrastructure management is a plus
Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Hazelcast, or hadoop is a major plus
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Interest in the finance industry, preferably trading
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Ability to take ownership and work in teams
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