Platform Engineer: $450k + TC (Elite Fintech)

Platform Engineer (Production / Development) – High Frequency Trading Firm

$450,000 + total compensation | NYC (relocation available)

The opportunity

When milliseconds move millions, reliability is the product. Own the systems that keep a technologist-led investment firm trading, from first line of code to live production - this is true Infrastructure Engineering with a development backbone.

Why consider it?

• Circa $450k total compensation + Benefits
• Technologists report to technologists: engineers are treated as the firm’s top asset
• Real impact: a small team inside a growing company, so your work is visible
• Greenfield work: a steady stream of new projects in an ever-evolving environment
• Cutting-edge technology and no red tape
• Beautiful offices

What you’ll be doing

• Owning the reliability, availability and performance of applications in production
• Automating repetitive operational work and fixing recurring systemic issues
• Running root cause analysis and delivering new engineering solutions to complex problems
• Leading incident management, from immediate resolution to longer-term preventative fixes
• Setting SRE best practices and standards across other engineering teams
• Understanding application behaviour end to end, including its business context

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python preferred)
• Experience with modern development practices: testing, source control, CI/CD, build systems
• Strong written and verbal communication
• An adaptable, entrepreneurial mindset and a genuine interest in hard technical problems
• Linux/systems Wizard