We are seeking highly motivated and talented people to join the Boerboel team. As a member of the team you will be working with passionate and curious colleagues who thrive on solving complex problems. Boerboel is an office-first firm. While we offer flexibility to our employees, remote work is not available at this time.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Production Engineer to join our London-based DevOps team! You'll be responsible for keeping our mid-to-back office trading systems running reliably, maintaining the infrastructure they run on, responding to production issues, and improving the tools and processes that support our trading operations.
This is a hands-on role. You'll work across the stack, from managing on-prem Linux servers to troubleshooting application-level issues in production trading systems. Our environment moves fast, tolerance for downtime is low, and the work you do directly impacts the business.
You'll report to the Head of DevOps and work alongside a small team of engineers who collectively own infrastructure, deployments, monitoring, and production support.
What You'll Do
Production Infrastructure
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and containerized workloads (Docker, Podman, or similar).
- Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Software Development & Automation
- Develop applications, ETL pipelines, and automation that support trading operations and improve business workflows.
- Build tools that increase developer productivity, reduce manual effort, and improve system reliability.
Production Operations
- Monitor production systems, respond to alerts, and participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical trading infrastructure.
- Lead production incidents from triage through resolution, perform root cause analysis, and maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
Data Quality & Trading Operations
- Monitor and validate reference data and pricing pipelines to ensure accurate trading, risk, and P&L data.
- Build automated reconciliation and data quality checks, and support the onboarding of new financial instruments across production systems
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or another STEM-related discipline.
- Experience as a Production Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Systems Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
- Strong Python scripting experience.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across technical teams.
- Familiarity/experience with some of the following:
- Bash scripting
- Managing on-premises infrastructure and applications
- Docker, Podman, or similar container technologies
- SQL and relational databases
- Building or supporting CI/CD pipelines
- Git and modern software development practices
- Troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing production systems
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana Labs products
- Configuration management tools such as Ansible
- Orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Dagster
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting systematic trading platforms or financial systems.
- Experience developing in C++.
- Familiarity with reference data management, market data, or P&L production processes.
- Experience building data quality or reconciliation frameworks.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or similar.
What Success Looks Like
In your first year, you will help:
- Improve the reliability and resilience of our production environment.
- Reduce manual effort through automation.
- Simplify and improve deployment pipelines.
- Enhance monitoring and operational visibility.
- Improve data quality and production processes supporting our trading platform.
- Contribute to a scalable, maintainable, and highly reliable engineering platform.
About us:
Boerboel Trading is a proprietary trading firm, active across a wide range of asset classes and regions, with offices in NYC, Chicago, London, and Malta. We engage in rigorous quantitative analysis to deploy systematic trading strategies over multiple time horizons. Trading and research employees of the firm are graduates from a wide spectrum of quantitative disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, mathematics and physics. Our employees apply their scientific methodologies to the analysis of extensive financial data sets.
What we offer:
Competitive pay (base and bonus) depending on job-related skills and experience.
Eligible employees are entitled to participate in our comprehensive benefits package, which includes private medical and dental insurance, travel insurance, life assurance, income protection cover, health cash plan membership, a corporate gym discount with Fitness First, access to Perkbox, and enrolment in the Royal London pension scheme with an employer contribution matching 5% of basic salary. In addition, employees receive 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays.
Boerboel is an office-first firm. While we offer flexibility to our employees, remote work is not available at this time.