Trade Monitor
Apply NowCompany: Tower Research Capital, LLC
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Trade Monitor
Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Trade Monitor in New York. The Trade Monitor will join one of our existing trading teams to provide support for our trading and risk system.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Anticipated New York annual base salary range $100,00-$150,000, plus eligible for discretionary bonus
Benefits
Tower's dual offices and garden roofdecks are located in TriBeCa and SoHo, neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan. While we work hard, Tower's cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:
Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.
Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Trade Monitor in New York. The Trade Monitor will join one of our existing trading teams to provide support for our trading and risk system.
Responsibilities
- Start and supervise Tower's automated trading systems in a variety of markets for trading team
- Monitor live trading for risk and compliance issues and quickly respond to unusual behaviors or market conditions
- Work closely with portfolio managers and quantitative developers to deploy models, observe behaviors of production strategies, and implement prescribed changes during the trading day
- Proactively troubleshoot and resolve issues related to scripts and processes for day to day trading activities
- Communicate with support staff, brokers and exchanges to resolve intra-day trading issues
- Carefully document procedures and log production issues as they occur
Qualifications
- At least 2 years of experience in a trade monitor, trading or trade support role
- Working knowledge of risk control of equities and futures markets
- A good understanding and overview of algorithmic trading technology/architecture, hardware, software, detection and diagnosis of problems on UNIX servers, related monitoring applications, data connection and distribution architecture
- Preferably strong experience in scripting languages (Python, Shell) to support existing infrastructure and eventually identify and contribute to areas of improvement
- Confidence to work within a context of complex tasks and problem solve under direction but also able to take the right amount of initiative and assume responsibility over time
- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
- A bachelor's degree from a college or university
Anticipated New York annual base salary range $100,00-$150,000, plus eligible for discretionary bonus
Benefits
Tower's dual offices and garden roofdecks are located in TriBeCa and SoHo, neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan. While we work hard, Tower's cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:
- 401(k) with company matching
- 5 weeks of paid vacation per year plus 11 paid holidays
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
- Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses
- Free events and workshops
- Donation matching program
Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.