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title: 'Trading Operations Engineer at Da Vinci'
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# Trading Operations Engineer at Da Vinci

- **Company:** Da Vinci
- **Location:** Miami Florida, United States
- **Posted:** 2025-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives/jobs/4680123101

## Job description

## About the Role

As a Trading Operations Engineer at Da Vinci, you’ll work closely with a team of skilled traders, researchers and software engineers. You’ll be responsible for managing our trading systems, making sure they run smoothly in day-to-day operations, with future growth in mind.

As our trading systems are highly customized, balancing stability with ongoing change is one of the key challenges in this job. Our engineers often need to learn on the go, so we are looking for people who enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing and successful company, and to play a key role in achieving our ambitious goals for our new Miami office.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee system performance, stability and uptime
- Automate the environment and test new technology fads
- Architect, implement, maintain and monitor our rapidly growing US production environment
- Manage applications in production, and monitor their behavior
- Address potential failures and bottlenecks to proactively prevent obstacles

Requirements:

- Experience managing mission-critical infrastructure and software support (in a trading environment is a plus)
- Intimate knowledge of networking, hardware and OSs (Windows, Linux)
- Familiar with tooling and best practices regarding change, life cycle and incident management, as well as health and performance monitoring of production systems
- Proficient with scripting (e.g., bash, python)
- Quick at analyzing issues and uncovering their root causes
- Eager to learn and understand all aspects of the trading environment
- Ability to spot inefficiencies and proactive in optimizing systems
- Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience

Benefits:

- An opportunity to work beside the best in the field
- Competitive base salary based on experience
- Excellent variable pay based on performance
- Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
- Relocation package when moving across states
- Training period in Amsterdam to get to know the team
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Meals during work hours
- Social events and after-work drinks

We are piloting an AI tool that screens applications based on how candidates’ skills and experience align with job requirements. Human recruiters review all applications and will always make all final hiring decisions. If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@davincitrading.com.

## About Da Vinci

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house that provides liquidity in digital assets and traditional financial instruments, solving market inefficiencies through volatility arbitrage and delta1 strategies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Proprietary trading firm)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial services – proprietary trading, market making, quantitative finance
- **Target customers**: B2B – exchanges, brokers, and counterparties in digital asset and traditional finance markets
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building the best proprietary trading house in the world" by solving technical and mathematical challenges with creative solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Liquidity Provision**: Da Vinci provides liquidity on major exchanges across Asia and the US, trading digital assets and traditional financial instruments.
- **Proprietary Trading**: The firm takes directional positions trading volatility, using quantitative strategies and volatility arbitrage.
- **Melzi (In-house Trading System)**: A custom-built, low-latency trading system developed from scratch by Da Vinci engineers, designed to implement sophisticated trading strategies efficiently.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – not applicable (bootstrapped proprietary firm); headcount growth indicated by active hiring across multiple offices.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors listed; partners include exchanges and brokers such as W.S.G. Abacus (university partner).
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion to four global offices (Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong) and continuous hiring for trading, quant, and engineering roles; launched own trading system Melzi.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Non-hierarchical culture**: Encourages employees to speak up and shape the firm’s future, with no limit on personal growth.
- **Custom-built technology**: The Melzi trading system is purpose-built for low latency and specific trading needs, giving a competitive edge.
- **Talent focus**: Hires "sharp minds and strong drive" across trading, quantitative research, and development, with a meritocratic reward system.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainable growth and collaboration** across teams and offices.
- **Continuous innovation** in trading strategies and technology, with ongoing investment in employee development and in-house training.
- **Expanding global presence** in key financial hubs (Asia, US, Europe).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Non-hierarchical, meritocratic, and collaborative – employees are encouraged to explore interests and take ownership.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and bonus based on performance, not seniority.
- **Benefits**: In-house training and external programs, relocation support for expats (including Dutch classes in Amsterdam), public transport costs covered, gym memberships, nutritious meals, health insurance.
- **Work environment**: Year-round social activities, company trips, in-house lounge, sports events.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices in Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong – likely office-based given trading environment.

## Sources
1. [davincitrading.com](https://davincitrading.com/)
2. [davincitrading.com/careers](https://davincitrading.com/careers/)
3. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives)
4. [abacus.utwente.nl](https://www.abacus.utwente.nl/partner/45-da-vinci.html)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/da-vinci-trading/jobs/)

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