Production Software Engineer

Gqr Global Markets - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

About the position

The Production Software Engineer will play a crucial role in enhancing the trading production environment by building infrastructure and automating processes. This position focuses on collaborating with various stakeholders to scale changes, improve robustness, and minimize overhead, ultimately contributing to a faster and safer innovation cycle in a tech-driven trading firm.

Responsibilities

• Design pipelines to improve the way changes enter production, from validation to merging to deployment.
• Build production environment monitoring infrastructure, focusing on incident management and operational visibility.
• Develop tooling or infrastructure to reduce overhead and increase reliability in production management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish or improve feedback loops across all aspects of production management.
• Work collaboratively with engineers in global offices to align production environments.
• Mentor junior team members and foster the growth of the next generation of engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Strong programming experience (Python is beneficial).
• Broad understanding of technology including networks, hardware, operating systems, databases, web servers, and applications.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling to assist with production change pipelines.
• Familiarity with Ansible, Django, Flask, and Jenkins is beneficial but not required.
• Previous experience in production management is beneficial.
• Ability to bring an improvement mindset and critical eye to complex operational challenges and systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Specific knowledge of the trading/finance industry is not required.