Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Software Engineer to join our Engineering Productivity team.

The Engineering Productivity team helps reduce the time from concept to deliverable by providing our development teams with the tools, practices and support to increase their productivity while maintaining high quality standards

Responsibilities 

• Contributing to the architecture, design, and implementation of an automated testing framework to reduce time to market and increase the quality of our product
• Working closely with software developers, testers and stakeholders globally to refine technical requirements for the test framework
• Designing technical testing strategies and heuristics for heavily integrated applications
• Creating and maintaining specification documents for the automation framework

Financial experience is not required.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience programming in Python
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong general programming and software design skills
• Familiarity with C++, including the ability to read and understand it
• Competence using Linux, and basic knowledge of system administration and environment management
• Familiarity with common, TCP/IP-based computer network protocols, an understanding of network protocols in general (e.g. the OSI model), and knowledge of how to troubleshoot them
• A background using version control systems (ideally including git)
• Experience with modern methodologies such as BDD or TDD
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in the finance industry and in Quality Assurance working with trading systems a strong plus

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:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• 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.