Application Support Engineer

Chicago, IL

Direct Hire

Salary Range: $70,000 - $80,000

Position: Application Support Engineer
 
Client is looking for talented APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEERS interested in a challenging and diverse role in a team of like-minded, enthusiastic people with strong technical and customer service skills.
 
Position Summary:
Handling all technical aspects related to support and configuration in the electronic trading software environment. Knowledge of financial trading is strongly desired.

 
Responsibilities:

  1. Delivering, customizing, and supporting cutting-edge software products for the financial trading industry.
  2. Interacting with traders, engineers, electronic trading counterparties, market-data-feed vendors to resolve production issues and handle non-production projects efficiently.
  3. Electronic trading connectivity certification, configuration, troubleshooting.
  4. Developing relationship/rapport with clients.

 
We are looking for candidates that are:

  1. Eager to start making a daily impact in a smaller size company while taking pride in the team’s superb reputation and the remarkable quality of our state-of-the-art solutions. – Main point being as a smaller company we take great pride and being able to provide the support most cant, we as support engineers do a lot more than just support, we are project managers, client engagement, client on-boarding, and many other things that matter so everything a new hire does will be impactful to our company right away and we want them to be proud of that and push that narrative and goals forward.
  2. Passionate about technology and enjoy technical problem-solving.
  3. Analytical, creative, detail-oriented, and self-motivated.
  4. Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  5. Interested in the exciting world of electronic trading.
  6. Looking for an agile and transparent team-oriented workplace where individual effort is fundamental.
  7. Aiming for a long-term commitment with continuous on-the-job learning, daily challenges, personalized experience, and opportunity to grow with the company.
  8. Want to make an impact with high visibility.
  9. Bring fresh ideas to the company to increase efficiency and productivity of our team.

 
Additional qualifications:

  1. Bachelor’s degree in an analytical or technical field.
  2. Solid experience with MS Windows environment. Linux is a plus.
  3. Knowledge and experience with some scripting language are a plus.
  4. Knowledge and experience with SQL are a plus.
  5. Familiarity with the financial industry is a plus.
  6. Experience with Perl, Python, XML is a plus.

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