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# Experienced/Lateral - Trading Operations Engineer at Five Rings LLC - Careers

- **Company:** Five Rings LLC - Careers
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Posted:** 2024-04-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fiveringsllc/jobs/4009569008

## Job description

## About Five Rings

Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. With offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Amsterdam, Five Rings trades in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seeks new opportunities, analyzes their risks and rewards, and creates strategies and tools to capitalize on them.

We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm.

## About the Role

New York based 200-person trading firm seeks a Trading Operations Engineer to provide technical operations support for US and UK based desks.  This individual is part of the firm’s Technology division but sits on the trading desk and is embedded in the technical operations processes of the firm.  The task set is roughly split evenly between desk facing activities and light coding tasks often in collaboration with full time development staff.

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- First point of contact for traders utilizing the firm’s trading systems
- Install, configure and monitor critical trading applications
- Incident management via ticketing system and documentation
- Collaborate with developers for all operational processes supporting trading applications

Required skills:

- Strong problem solving and multitasking abilities
- Experience with Python, bash and MySQL on Linux is required
- Excellent communication skills Range reflects annual base salary. Total compensation packages are comprised of base salary and a discretionary bonus.

Salary Range: $250,000—$300,000 USD

## About Five Rings LLC - Careers

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm that combines strategy, innovation, and technology to identify and capitalize on opportunities across global markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped – no outside investors or clients)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (with offices in London, Amsterdam, and Boca Raton)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Proprietary trading (financial services)
- Target customers: None – the firm trades exclusively for its own account; no external clients
- Mission/purpose: “Find them first and profit from them quickly” – constantly seeking new opportunities, analyzing risks/rewards, and creating strategies and tools to capitalize on them

## Products & Services
- **Proprietary Trading Strategies**: In-house developed algorithms and models executed across established and esoteric markets (domestic and international).
- **Trading Systems Technology**: Custom low-latency trading infrastructure built on C++, Python, and Linux, designed for rapid iteration (insight to implementation often within days or weeks).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held, no external investors)
- **Key Metric**: 229 employees (LinkedIn, as of mid-2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors or partners; the firm is entirely self-funded.
- **Growth Signals**: Operates in 7 countries (US, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, India, Brazil); 4 offices; active recruiting for multiple roles (Quantitative Trader, Software Developer, Trading Operations Engineer, etc.); sponsors a summer Trading Systems Development Intensive Program for sophomores [fiverings.com](https://fiverings.com/) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiverings)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team-first meritocracy**: Flat structure, open culture, and collaboration among quants, developers, and traders.
- **Strong mentorship**: Experienced traders and developers provide extensive hands-on and classroom training.
- **Speed of execution**: Strategies move from insight to implementation within days or weeks, not months.
- **Compensation**: Competitive packages that reflect the firm’s belief that talent drives success (LinkedIn reports high compensation ratings – 4.3/5.0 for compensation).

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding into multiple markets (domestic and international, established and esoteric).
- Invest heavily in technology and quantitative research to maintain an edge in speed and analytics.
- Recruit top analytical talent from universities and competitors (top sources: MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Jane Street, Meta).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Casual atmosphere, flat hierarchy, and a focus on collaboration and mentoring. Described as an “open and fun culture” where ideas flow freely [fiverings.com/team](https://fiverings.com/team/).
- **Work environment**: Full-time, in-office presence expected (trading floor setting). Offices in New York, London, Amsterdam.
- **Perks**: Great benefits, educational priorities (classroom training on top of hands-on work), summer internship program with social events, and a recent “National Intern Day” celebration with an ice cream cart. Employee reviews give culture 3.9/5.0 and career opportunities 3.2/5.0 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiverings).
- **Engineering focus**: Software developers work on cutting-edge trading systems using C++23, Python, distributed systems, and low-latency networking. The firm runs a dedicated “Trading Systems Development Intensive” program for sophomores [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fiveringsllc/jobs/4988120008).

## Sources
1. [fiverings.com](https://fiverings.com/)
2. [fiverings.com/team](https://fiverings.com/team/)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiverings)
4. [Greenhouse careers page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fiveringsllc)

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