Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

At Susquehanna, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology with people who are passionate and like-minded.

As a member of our Testing team, you will work in a real time, high performance, high frequency, technology environment. You will leverage your development and testing skills to build test automation tools and processes for our highly distributed trading systems.

In this position, you will focus on automating testing of exchange connectivity and market data systems.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop custom automation tools and testing processes for exchange connectivity and market data systems running on the Linux platform
• Take a lead in building/enhancing an integration test environment and when needed, troubleshoot and resolve system problems
• Learn in depth details of applications in order to identify and resolve obscure problems
• Work closely with developers, traders and support staff, responding to questions about production systems
• Engage in performance monitoring of the production environment in order to improve system performance
• Assist with numerous automation tasks including testing, deployment, and process improvement 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field working in a Test Engineer in a software development organization is required
• Must have 2+ years’ experience designing and building automated test frameworks
• Demonstrated proficiency in an object-oriented language (C++ or Python) and a high proficiency with the Linux OS is required
• Experience working with large data sets and understanding of network programming would be highly regarded
• Understanding of distributed systems and trading technology is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to: learn quickly, communicate clearly, and solve business and technical problems is required

What’s in it for you

Real Impact: As an essential member of the team, your role involves supporting, innovating, and optimising systems processing and models using massive amounts of data, all while ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Trading, Quantitative Research, Infrastructure and Strategy Developer Teams to develop and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region.

Growth: We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits

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About Susquehanna

What we do 

Susquehanna’s deep integration of trading, technology and quant research makes us experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives. We handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day as both a market maker and market taker. Our efforts provide liquidity and ensure competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized to allow for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

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