Software Engineer – Enterprise Technology

Hudson River Trading is seeking an IT generalist with Python programming experience to join our Enterprise Engineering team. In this role, you will design, manage, and connect the core productivity services that help every HRTer go fast. You will be responsible for ensuring tools like Slack, Google Workspace, and Okta – the chat, email, docs, and login services people need to get stuff done in a globally distributed company – work reliably and well with one another. You will also help manage a variety of key productivity services, including niche third-party products and internally-built platforms, tune them to perfection, build automation to minimize manual operations, and craft bespoke tools to fill in the gaps. We’re here to make all of these services work for HRTers while ensuring that the tools do the heavy lifting and stay out of the way.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other engineering and operations teams to ensure our core user platforms are intuitive, reliable, and a pleasure to use
• Find, enhance, or build the best productivity and collaboration systems that allow HRTers to excel at their work
• Lead and manage complex technical projects with multiple stakeholders across the business
• Build features HRT needs like SCIM, config management, and self-service interfaces
• Manage user identities and access policies across a wide variety of internal and external systems
• Glue a variety of in-house and third party systems together, customizing an ecosystem for HRT’s highly specific needs
• Get things done in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Automate away toil
• Go beyond self-service to enable “it already happened”-service

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, IT engineering, or related disciplines
• Python programming experience

• You code regularly as part of your current role
• You’ve built tools or systems from the ground up that other people use

• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience programming against SaaS and Cloud platform APIs for integration and automation
• Experience managing enterprise software deployments, including standard integrations like SSO, SCIM, and PAM
• Basic familiarity with Linux and comfort navigating the command line

The estimated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year, based on job-related skills and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Culture

Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office. Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you. Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.