TAD (Software Engineer III)

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.
Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.
Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.
At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.
Tower Research Capital LLC, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks experienced Software Engineer for our Core Engineering team who are excited to design in-house trading systems that are robust, resilient, and extremely fast.

The Testing and Automation Group is responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting automation test frameworks across organisations for a variety of testing needs. We also own the responsibility of formalizing testing methodologies, analysis of failures and enforcement of quality metrics. We facilitate continuous integration and testing by creating and maintaining automation test pipelines.

 Responsibilities

• Reviewing software requirements and preparing test scenarios/cases
• Interacting with developers to understand product requirements.
• Participating in design reviews and providing input on requirements, product design, and potential problems
• Automating test cases using BDD framework written in Python
• Help in enhancing automation framework

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience with  at-least 2  years of experience in Python
• 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

• Generous paid time off policies
• Savings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free breakfast, lunch and snacks daily
• In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g., gym, personal training and more)
• Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
• Social events, happy hours, treats and celebrations throughout the year
• Workshops and continuous learning opportunities

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.