Trading Systems Engineer

Alpha Alternatives

Mumbai, India

3-5 Years

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Job Description

Role Summary

We are seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to design and build the next generation of trading infrastructure for our systematic and discretionary trading businesses.

The role focuses on developing robust order management systems, execution platforms, market-data infrastructure, risk controls, and trader-facing applications that operate reliably in live markets.

Unlike traditional software development roles, success in this position is measured by the ability to build resilient, scalable, and production-ready trading systems rather than simply writing application code.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with a deep understanding of real-time systems, distributed architectures, and electronic trading workflows.

Trading Infrastructure

Design and build production-grade OMS and EMS systems
Develop exchange connectivity and broker integration layers
Build order routing and execution frameworks
Design systems capable of handling high message throughput with deterministic behavior
Implement robust recovery mechanisms for market interruptions, broker outages, and system failures

Execution Algorithm

Develop and maintain semi-automated execution algorithms
Build smart order routing and execution scheduling tools
Create trader-assist workflows for execution monitoring and intervention
Implement execution analytics and transaction cost analysis frameworks

Market Data System

Build and maintain real-time market-data pipelines
Develop systems for ingestion, normalization, aggregation, and storage of market data
Ensure low-latency dissemination of data across internal systems
Design historical tick-data storage and retrieval infrastructure

Risk & Control

Implement pre-trade and post-trade risk controls
Develop position monitoring and exposure management systems
Build automated alerts, kill switches, and circuit-breaker frameworks
Ensure auditability and compliance of trading workflows

Reliability & Production Engineering

Build observability frameworks including monitoring, logging, alerting, and diagnostics
Improve system resiliency, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery processes
Participate in production support and incident response
Continuously optimize performance, scalability, and operational robustness

Trader-Facing Tool

Develop dashboards and applications used by traders and portfolio managers
Build monitoring systems for orders, executions, positions, risk, and P&L
Improve workflow automation across trading operations

Must-Have Skills

Software Engineering

Strong proficiency in Python.
Strong proficiency in one systems language:
Rust (preferred)
C++
Go
Deep understanding of:
Concurrency
Multithreading
Event-driven architectures
Distributed systems
Network programming

Trading Systems

Experience building one or more of:

OMS
EMS
Exchange connectivity
Market-data systems
Execution platforms
Real-time risk systems
Low-latency infrastructure

Databases & Data Engineering

PostgreSQL
Time-series databases
Redis or equivalent caching systems
Message queues and streaming systems

Examples:

Kafka
NATS
RabbitMQ
Redpanda

Production Engineering

Experience with:

Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
CI/CD
Linux environments
Containerized deployments

Examples:

Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Prometheus

Preferred Skills

Experience in options, futures, or systematic trading.
Knowledge of exchange protocols and market connectivity.
Understanding of market microstructure.
Experience with low-latency system design.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
Experience working in hedge funds, prop trading firms, brokerages, exchanges, or HFT firms.

What We Are NOT Looking For

This is not a traditional web-development role.

Experience primarily focused on: