Equity Trading System Engineer

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank.

We are now looking for an ambitious Trading System Engineer to strengthen our Equity DevOps area. If you are passionate about trading technology, complex real-time systems, resiliency or DevOps, then this might be a perfect fit!
The Equity DevOps team is a group of senior technologists responsible for Nordea’s equity trading platforms. The platforms provide a wide range of business capabilities, including order management, exchange connectivity, risk and position management as well as low-latency market making, covering equity cash products, derivatives and funds. Up to a billion transactions are handled by this infrastructure on a daily basis, the majority driven by automated trading logic with high demands on performance, stability and scalability under load. The platforms are required to handle extreme market conditions, including once-in-a-decade market crashes and rallies.
The role is based in our headquarters in central Stockholm or Copenhagen, where you will sit on the trading floor together with the development and trading teams, which offers a great opportunity to learn the nuances of trading and the financial markets.
Nordea Technology is organized around competence areas, such as SW Development, IT Analysis and Application Maintenance. Your home will be in the Application Maintenance capability. Engineers from the various competence areas come together in DevOps teams, which is where the business value is delivered through projects or application maintenance and support. You will be part in one of the Equity DevOps teams.
In Application Maintenance you will drive the best practices and standards around how Nordea delivers application maintenance, while in Equities DevOps team you will deliver solutions around the trading applications.
About this opportunity
Welcome to the Equity DevOps team, a diverse and multi-cultural team with a passion for trading technology.
You will play an important role by:
Providing excellent application support to equity sales managers and traders
Identify and eliminate toil by fixing root causes or eliminate repetitive manual work through automation
Proactively drive resiliency by implementing and continuously improve monitoring systems, recovery and failover capabilities
Resolve incidents, identify root causes and mitigating actions
Drive stability and improvement initiatives toward software vendors, core technology and other stakeholders
Participate in Quality Assurance of new features, drive non-functional development requirements and review architecture as a key member of the DevOps team
You will take part in the support rotation (morning or evening), ensuring we have proper support coverage at all times

What we offer:
A dynamic, collaborative and learning environment where each contribution matters
Opportunity to work on mission critical systems and get exposure and in-depth knowledge of a wide range of technologies and the equity trading domain
At least 10% time dedicated to learning and opportunities to participate in various communities of practices such as release orchestration, cloud technology, QA Automation or Development Community
Hybrid working model with opportunity to work partly from remote or home

Who you are
Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.
You have a relevant degree in computer science, electrical engineering or similar
Fluent in English

The ideal candidate would have some or all of the following:
Advantage to have strong knowledge of exchange technology and related communication protocols, an example being the FIX protocol
Advantage to have strong system administration skills in Windows or Linux and general good understanding of network technology
Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and managing databases such as Microsoft SQL server
Fluent in programming or scripting languages, could be any of python, java or powershell or similar
Advantage to have experience with Front Arena’s order management suite, OMNI, Softbroker
Working knowledge of continuous integration and deployment pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins, Bitbucket)
Hands-on experience in configuration management and orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Puppet)

To thrive in this role we believe you possess the following characteristics:
Keen interest in equity stock markets or trading technology
Team player with excellent communication skills
Structured approach and ability to think while under pressure
Self-motivated, reliable and flexible with a doer mindset

Ambitious, but still lazy enough to never perform the same task twice and see repetitive work as an opportunity to automate
You want to understand why and seek the underlying root cause

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps

Submit your application no later than 31/03/2022. 

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.