Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Reliability Engineer to join our Referential Data team.

The Referential Data division is responsible for providing a consistently accurate and up-to-date copies of global security, market, and related referential data for firm-wide use in all stages of the trade lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Supporting and maintaining the next-generation reference data platforms at Tower
• Working with trade support and developers across multiple regions to resolve production issues
• Interacting with trading teams and users to handle issues
• Analyzing production issues and implementing corrective measures to prevent them from recurring
• Documenting production issues and production interventions taken
• Logging incident tickets and attending regular incident review meetings
• Supporting new execution venues, trading products, and data vendors
• Taking end-to-end ownership: development, testing, release and support.
• Validating market data changes are correct and modifying generated reports when necessary
• Monitoring job scheduler and custom alerting platform
• Establishing certification criteria for enhancements and/or new products to be released into production and integrating such into the testing and deployment process

Qualifications         

• 4-8 years working in a high pressure environment, including diagnosing and resolving production issues on the fly
• At least 1-2 years experience working with Enterprise applications written in Java, Python, Linux shell scripting, and job schedulers
• At least 1-2 years experience working with SQL (ie. MySQL, PostGres) and NoSQL (ie. MongoDB) databases
• Comfortable working in an UNIX environment along with good shell scripting skills
• Experience with Security Masters, Reference Data, or Market Data infrastructure
• Good understanding of electronic trading and/or financial instruments including equities, commodities, credit, interest rates, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, futures, forwards, and options
• Exposure to an Agile development environment, use of JIRA and test driven development
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks on a daily basis
• Cab facility within Gurgaon
• Health club allowances