One of our clients is hiring System Engineer in Toronto. This is a 4 days onsite role in office.

For this role, we are looking out for someone with System Architect role with Python, AWS, SQL and Capital Market company experience.

Responsibilities

Work in collaboration with trading professionals, operations and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classes including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.

Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, design and develop new software applications. Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.

Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud development.

Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.

Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.

Prepare and document design and program specifications.

Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.

Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.

Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.

Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.

Skills

Must have

University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.

Strong interest in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support portfolio management activities.

Knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.

Experience in Python, or a keen interest to learn, SQL and passion to keep up-to-date in technology.

Knowledge of technologies for Cloud development. Experience working with AWS is preferred.

Experience in FIX protocol is a bonus.

Passion to expand your domain knowledge both on the job and through continued education.