Senior Tech Associate - Trading Connectivity

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.

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 in 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, provide solutions to integrate with third party trading platforms, and enable electronic trading of new types of instruments supported by the trading system.

WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY :

You will keep track of immediate production issues with our broker connections and resolve the problems by following up with brokers, systems and members of the trading connectivity team as needed. You will keep track of upcoming changes to our broker connections and handle configuration changes, UAT testing etc. required for such changes. You will set up new trading connections that mostly require configuration changes. You will handle user acceptance tests with brokers and new product certifications. You will interface with the Financial Operations (FinOps) team to handle their queries. You will work with FinOps to enable new account setups for trading. You will handle configuration changes to our locate setups. You will help data analytics team with production issues related to locate setups. In addition to this, you will drive long-term simplification of our trading connections by following up with brokers to use common standards across our connections.

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 the role of application software support and L1 / L2 operation services
• Good troubleshooting and debugging skills
• The ability to be flexible with working hours (open to work in either early morning or late-night shifts)
• Prior experience in a Linux environment, exposure to scripting and application support environment, along with familiarity with one of the programming languages like C / C++ / Python / Java
• Excellent communication skills and ability to efficiently deal with multiple time-critical issues in an agile environment

Preferred qualifications :

Interested candidates can apply through our website :

https : / / www.deshawindia.com / recruit / jobs / Adv / Link / SnTcAscTCOct25

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The Firm offers excellent benefits, a casual, collegial working environment, and an attractive compensation package. For further information about our recruitment process, including how applicant data will be processed, please visit https : / / www.deshawindia.com / careers.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

Skills Required

Java, Scripting, C, Linux, Python