Trading Connectivity Engineer

About D. E. Shaw India Private Limited

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $65 billion in investment capital as of March 1, 2025, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since our founding in 1988, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have a significant presence in the world's capital markets, investing in a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies.

About the Trading Connectivity Engineer Role

We are looking for a resourceful candidate to join the Trading Connectivity team based in the firm’s offices in Hyderabad/Gurugram/Bengaluru. The Trading Connectivity team is an integral part of the Trading Systems team at D. E. Shaw that focuses on developing software required for interfacing with brokers and exchanges for order execution management. The team also creates solutions required to process real-time messages from third-party trading platforms used by our traders. The solutions developed by this team are important to enable execution of orders desired by the trading system and keep our compliance rules aware of external trading by our traders. The Trading Connectivity team works with traders and quants from internal trading strategy groups to plan and execute projects to enable order execution with different brokers and exchanges. Our primary business objectives include the development and design of interfaces with brokers and exchanges, providing solutions to integrate with third-party trading platforms, and enabling electronic trading of new types of instruments supported by the trading system.

What You'll Do Day-to-Day

• Keep track of immediate production issues with our broker connections and resolve problems by following up with brokers, systems, and team members.
• Monitor upcoming changes to broker connections, handling configuration changes and UAT testing.
• Set up new trading connections, primarily through configuration adjustments.
• Conduct user acceptance tests with brokers and manage new product certifications.
• Interface with the Financial Operations (FinOps) team for queries and new account setups.
• Manage configuration changes for locate setups and assist the data analytics team with related production issues.
• Drive long-term simplification of trading connections by encouraging common standards across brokers.

Who We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)/ Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Computer Science/IT)/ Bachelor of Engineering (B.E)/ Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree.
• Around 2 years of IT experience in application software support and L1/L2 operation services.
• Good troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Flexibility with working hours (early morning or late-night shifts).
• Prior experience in a Linux environment, exposure to scripting and application support, and familiarity with C/C++/Python/Java.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to efficiently deal with multiple time-critical issues in an agile environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior exposure to the financial domain.

Key skills/competency

• Trading Systems
• Connectivity Management
• Application Support
• L1/L2 Operations
• Troubleshooting
• Linux Environment
• Scripting (Shell/Python)
• C++/Java Development
• UAT Testing
• Financial Operations