Electronic Trading, Senior SDET – Algorithmic Trading, Vice President

Job Purpose:

BTIG seeks a Senior SDET to join our tight-knit, high-caliber engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for building testing frameworks and automation strategies for our real-time algorithmic trading systems. This is an opportunity for someone with solid engineering experience but ready for more ownership—someone eager to apply their skills in a fast-paced, high-performance environment where daily deployments and continuous iteration are the norm. Our trading systems operate in a latency-sensitive, high-throughput environment, integrating with global exchanges, market data feeds, and client order flows. You'll work closely with developers to test and validate everything from real-time trading logic to exchange connectivity and risk management tools.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and own automated testing frameworks for real-time trading algorithms, order management, and exchange connectivity
• Develop robust test strategies for performance, reliability, and fault tolerance in low-latency, event-driven system
• Work closely with developers to identify edge cases, enforce quality standards, and mitigate trading risks before code reaches production
• Expand test coverage while keeping up with an iterative daily deployment cycle
• Build CI/CD pipelines optimized for rapid, high-confidence releases
• Analyze and improve test automation for market data, order execution, and pricing engines
• Help define best practices for testing in an algorithmic trading environment

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree required
• Strong engineering mindset with a passion for breaking systems and making them better
• Real-world experience in software testing, automation, and quality engineering (bonus if in trading or other real-time systems)
• Experience designing automated test frameworks for complex, distributed systems
• Familiarity with algo trading, market data handling, FIX protocol, and the like is a plus
• Comfort working in fast-paced, iterative deployment cycles
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and both cloud and on-prem deployments
• Interest in financial markets, electronic trading, or real-time distributed systems

Important Notes:

• Must be authorized to work full time in the U.S., BTIG does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type
• No phone calls please, the applicant will be contacted within two weeks if successful

About BTIG:

BTIG is a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services. With an extensive global footprint and more than 700 employees, BTIG, LLC and its affiliates operate out of 20 cities throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTIG offers execution, expertise and insights for equities, equity derivatives, ETFs and fixed income, currency and commodities. The firm’s core capabilities include global execution, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.
 
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. BTIG is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Compensation: 

• BTIG offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Salary range is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, years of applicable experience, skills, qualifications, licensure and certifications, and other business and organization needs.
• The current estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 per year. Please note that certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as discretionary bonus or overtime. 

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