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| At TradeStation Group we are always looking for top-notch people to enhance our first-rate team. Below you can search for positions that are available right now by selecting a category you are interested in, or simply scroll down the page to review all current postings. Good Luck! |
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While we prefer to receive your resumé via email, if that option is inaccessible to you, you can fax your resumé to us at (954) 652-7039. |
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Client Services Representative – Plantation, FL
The Client Services Representative position will be responsible for end to end client support. The client base that is serviced consists of sophisticated traders that require a unique level of support. The position will be responsible for client education, client trading support, platform troubleshooting, and product support. The candidate will be expected to work as a liaison to Operations, Sales and other departments to ensure resolution to all customer requests and issues in a timely fashion.
Main Duties:
- Resolving client inquiries via email and phone
- Work in a team oriented environment
- Client education
- Account maintenance (historical transactions inquiries, review of commissions, update of account parameters, review of incoming and outgoing financial transactions, etc.)
- Software support
- Ability to work in a fast paced and interactive environment
- Maintain a positive representation of TradeStation through professionalism, courtesy, and by striving to exceed Clients' expectations.
Requirements:
The candidate will be required to pass Series 3 exam within three months of hire date if license is not already held. The candidate will be expected to learn the trading platform in order to handle technical questions with regard to trading as well as software. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with customer account procedures to assist with client inquiries.
Candidates should be willing to work in a customer focused environment that is fast paced and challenging. 2-3 years of financial services experience is required. Series 7 & 63 licenses are required and Series 3 & 24 are preferred.
We offer a dynamic environment that will challenge your professional abilities and reward your contributions with competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits.
Technical Writer – Temp Position - Plantation, FL
The Technical Writer will be responsible for creating documentation for the EasyLanguage object-oriented programming language and editing environment, including class libraries, code examples and related programming topics.
Responsibilities:
- Developing an Object Oriented Programming Language and editing environment. Creation of programming language documentation in the development editor for class libraries and class members including code examples.
- Documenting trading software products in a clear and concise manner, while maintaining documentation standards.
- Creating deliverables including help topics, multimedia activities and printed materials in support of ongoing documentation and training.
- Editing and proofing related documentation and training produced by others.
- Coordinating with Product Management and Engineering to develop the relevant technical material from technical specifications for incorporation into documentation based on established product development timelines.
- Reviewing QA reports and responds to subject matter expert requests for changes and enhancements to documentation.
- Managing one or more documentation projects.
- Managing the work of other contributing writers, such as subject matter experts or engineers.
Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential with the ability to write clear and concise documentation for technical and non-technical users.
- A team-oriented approach and strong organizational skills are equally important.
- The Technical Writer must be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and produce quality work while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Research skills and the ability to quickly assimilate new concepts is a necessary part of the position.
- B.A. in Communications, Journalism, English, Education or B.S. in Computer Science, or related technical field.
- 3 or more years of full-time technical writing, preferably for computer programming languages and software development applications.
- Working knowledge of computer programming languages including object-oriented programming concepts.
- Experience with context-sensitive help systems and scripting learning materials.
- Knowledge of financial markets, technical analysis, and instructional development is a tremendous plus.
Margin Specialist – Plantation, FL
Our Brokerage Operations is seeking a professional Margin Specialist to work with our Margin and ACATS Team.
Main Duties:
- Reviewing and analyzing margin trading activity on various in-house and custom systems.
- Enforce adherence to firm, industry and government rules and regulations.
- Approve cash disbursements.
Requirements:
- The successful candidate must have familiarity with industry and government rules and regulations.
- Possess the ability to calculate basic margin requirements.
- Must have strong communication, organizational and analytical skills.
- Detailed and deadline oriented.
- High level of integrity.
- College degree or 1 - 3 years of experience in a brokerage operations related to margin oversight, and/or trading.
- Series 7 license required.
- SunGard Phase3 system experience a plus.
Client Services Manager – Chicago, IL
The Client Services Manager will be responsible for managing a team of Client Services Representatives that handle end to end client resolution for both brokerage and software support related inquires. These responsibilities also include hiring, retention, recognition, discipline, coaching, reviews and appraisals, and development of staff. In addition, the Client Services Manager will act as a liaison with Operations, Sales, and other departments for issues related to Client Services.
Main Duties:
- Coaching and feedback of Client Services Representatives
- Act as escalation point for high priority issues
- Understanding of regulatory and firm policies
- Review of representative correspondence
- Represent Client Services during inter-departmental meetings and projects
- Monthly metrics reporting
- Define areas for improvement related to the customer experience
- Develop, coordinate, and participate in training for Client Services
Requirements:
- Should demonstrate excellent leadership ability
- Well versed in platform and product offerings
- Effectively communicator
- Decisive decision maker
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Ability to work in a fast paced and interactive environment
Bachelor’s degree with 4-6 years of Brokerage experience and 3 years of management experience is required. Series 7 and 63 licenses required. Series 24, 3, and 55 licenses preferred. Additional licensing will be required as the candidate grows within the organization.
We offer a dynamic environment that will challenge your professional abilities and reward your contributions with competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits.
EasyLanguage Engineer – Richardson, TX
Our Richardson, Texas branch office is seeking a qualified, creative EasyLanguage Engineer to help design and develop technical analysis studies and trading tools using our proprietary development language called EasyLanguage®
- Support our large and growing online community at the TradeStation Securities support web site via the EasyLanguage discussion forums and wiki.
- Provide technical assistance to active and institutional traders to translate their trading ideas and approaches into customized studies and automated trading strategies in EasyLanguage.
- Help advanced users and third-party developers extend the capabilities of EasyLanguage via C++ DLL’s, including algorithmic trading solutions.
- Develop EasyLanguage studies and other tools for inclusion as built-ins with the TradeStation software.
- Assist in the education and training of new EasyLanguage users.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
- Solid experience in technical analysis and EasyLanguage.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Series 3, 7 and 63 licenses (or such licenses must be obtained within 90 days).
- Willingness to relocate to the Dallas metropolitan area.
Preferred:
- Trading experience in the financial markets (equities, futures, options, forex).
- Experience in C++.
Product Management Department – Plantation, FL
TradeStation Securities is growing and we are looking to expand our Product Management Team that is responsible for TradeStation, the most award-winning, state-of-the-art trading platform. We have the following opportunities for individuals who are passionate about customers, detail-oriented, analytical, love technology and excel at building relationships and coordinating people to drive projects to completion:
Project Manager – Plantation, FL
Responsible for driving projects through the project lifecycle. The incumbent will provide global management for all project related activities and own ultimate accountability for the delivery of a project in accordance with the business requirements and established deadlines.
Responsibilities:
- Provide project management for large/medium projects and/or programs and maintain detailed enterprise project plans
- Provide expertise, communicate and implement project lifecycle for:
- Timeline management
- Issue resolution and escalation
- Communications and status reporting
- Knowledge management
- Vendor management
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Resource management
- Deliverable management
- Scope management
- Interface with business owners and product managers to understand their needs and secure appropriate project buy-in/sign-off throughout life cycle
- Ensure that projects are phased into the appropriate development cycle
- Maintain historical records for all projects and provide year-end reporting and reasons for success or failure of each project
- Track progress and participate as necessary in business acceptance testing
- Facilitate final go/no-go decisions
Requirements:
- Solid problem solving and analytical skills
- Solid business knowledge as it relates to the securities industry
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills required for interactions across organization
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- Proven abilities in change management and leading large groups
- Experience in presenting to senior management
- Competent in the technical arena and understanding of software development
- Experience as a project manager in an agile development environment
- Proficient in MS Project and MS Office
- Bachelor's degree (Master’s/MBA a plus)
- Minimum 3-5 years experience as a project manager successfully running diverse cross-functional teams in the securities industry
- Series 3, 7 or 63 licenses a plus
We offer a dynamic environment that will challenge your professional abilities and reward your contributions with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package.
Web Designer – Plantation, FL
Responsibilities include the design and construction of company web pages/sites including incorporating graphic user interface (GUI) features and other techniques. Required to maintain and provide ongoing design of the website content and structure, while meeting requirements provided by management. This position requires a bachelor's degree in a related area and 4-6 years of experience in the field. Applicants must be familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Candidates are expected to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish a variety of complicated tasks and goals. A wide degree of technical proficiency, creativity, and latitude is expected.
General Proficiencies:
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent problem solving and solution building skills
- Technically savvy with the ability to multi-task effectively
- User interface design principles and general practices (must be able to provide samples of work)
- Page layout design (must be able to provide samples of work)
- Client-side development
- Extensive graphic arts skills (must be able to provide samples of work)
- Ability to learn new internet and authoring technologies relevant to web site design/development
- Ability to design within standards set forth by the W3C
- Working knowledge of cross browser compatibility issues and how to work around them
- Excited about and interested in exploring new and emerging technologies and methods
- Knowledge of SEO (search engine optimization) techniques and best practices
Design Proficiencies:
- Expert knowledge of HTML, DHTML, XHMTL
- Expert knowledge of web forms, form elements, error handling, and manipulation
- Expert knowledge of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) use and implementation
- Extensive experience with, but not limited to, the following design tools:
- Image Editing (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks)
- HTML Editing (Adobe Dreamweaver)
- Vector Graphics (Adobe Illustrator/Flash, Microsoft Silverlight)
- Image optimization and slicing, image maps, animations
- Experience with embedding multimedia and interactive media into web content
- Experience with multimedia and interactive media design tools:
- Adobe/Macromedia Flash
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Adobe/Macromedia Director
- Video Editing (Adobe Premier)
- Sound Editing (Sony Sound Forge)
Development Proficiencies:
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript, Jscript, and the browser DOM.
- Working knowledge of the Visual Studio .NET IDE (v.2008 experience a plus)
- Essential knowledge of ASP and ASP.NET constructs, components, and design principles
- Working knowledge of XML and XSL, and other related technologies
- Working knowledge of AJAX
- Experience in SQL database structure, communication, and manipulation is a plus.
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Director of Marketing - Plantation, FL
This position is responsible for leading the Marketing team at TradeStation. This includes overall brand stewardship and, the corporate identity, planning, creative and execution of all external communication (interactive, web and traditional media), all interactive aspects of lead generation, capture and conversion, market research, data analysis. To succeed in this position will require management of both long term strategic positioning and branding as well as shorter term promotional programs. The person in this position will play a critical role in shaping customer and prospect perceptions of TradeStation and ultimately our success in achieving long term business goals. The position has lead responsibility for coordinating consistency of message and branding across all channels employed by TradeStation, including (in addition to directly managed responsibilities) education, events, and sales support. While this position will not directly manage these functions, some of which will report to the COO and others of which will not, this person must create and own the creative platform and graphics standards employed throughout the company. The position is responsible for production vendors used by TradeStation as well as internal designers and copywriters.
Essential Job Functions:
- Develop and implement strategic communications plans that support achieving business objectives.
- Develop and produce interactive and traditional advertising that achieves strategic and tactical communication goals.
- Own responsibility for TradeStation’s online presence including both customer acquisition and support.
- Develop, implement and monitor the effectiveness of media plans targeting identified target markets.
- Coordinate development of TradeStation creative platform and graphics standards that unify all TradeStation communication. Lead process of compliance with those standards across all functions that employ them.
- Produce collateral marketing materials and other branded communication.
- Direct multi-media special projects such as videos and product demonstrations.
- Demonstrate leadership as a senior leader of the TradeStation Marketing team, maintaining the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, mutual support and cooperation within the team and with the Sales, Service and Product Management functions.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to deliver all aspects of job responsibilities described above.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and demonstrate creative thinking.
- Manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Education & Experience
College degree and 10+ years retail securities or commodities brokerage marketing experience or marketing communications role at brokerage firms targeting retail active traders, and a track record of accomplishment in the area of advertising management described in Essential Job Functions above. Excellent organizational skills, problem-solving and interpersonal skills mandatory.
Network Engineer II - Plantation, FL
Responsible for all technical aspects related to the Data Centers. To be part of all technical decisions. Monitoring systems and network layout.
Essential Job Functions:
- Implementation and maintenance of networks
- Develops network standards and protocols for hardware, software, and integration
- Develops, tests, and, as needed, implements, disaster recovery procedures
- Oversees compliance with industry, regulatory, and campus standards
- Analyzes needs and determines appropriate architecture, topology, and transmission
- Provides or arranges for network connectivity, ensuring appropriate integration
- Responds to situation/requests in a timely basis
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Full understanding of network concepts and/or administration
- Responsible for network security
- Responsible for uptime of network infrastructure
- Ability to work independently in local and/or remote locations
- Knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems
- Skill in examining and reengineering processes, formulating policy, and developing and implementing
- Skill in systems integration
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate technology proposals from technical, financial, and integration perspectives
- Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within Networking
- Must be MCSE Certified
- Must be Cisco Certified
Education & Experience
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems and experience (typically 3-5 years) in applications development is necessary. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may also serve to meet these minimum requirements. CISCO CCNP certification.
Marketing Communications Manager - Plantation, FL
Oversees the development of marketing content and communication programs. Serves as a critical liaison between internal Product Management teams and the Marketing department. Must develop and maintain a high level of interaction and collaboration with a variety of business groups across the company. Create plans for product promotion in support of marketing and general business objectives.
Essential Job Functions:
Excellent organizational skills with an attention to detail, strong writing skills, highly organized multi-tasker.
- Plan and implement marketing projects, within agreed upon deadlines and allocated promotional budgets, working closely with internal designers and copywriters, as well as external agencies.
- Utilize all elements of the marketing mix (including; direct marketing, advertising, event promotions, collateral development, Web development and e-marketing) to support marketing strategies (including; sales support; direct revenue generation; lead generation; retention; product launches/upgrades; creating brand awareness and customer relationship management).
- Communicate strategic perspectives to in house designers and copywriters as well as external agencies.
- Ensure consistency and quality of messaging and accurate positioning for all projects.
- Create and manage project planning documents, campaign budgets and return on investment information.
- Analyze and measure project effectiveness, providing feedback about project effectiveness and new opportunities or gaps.
- Web content development: in concert with the Web Team, ensure that updated information about products and services are posted on all appropriate sites.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Experienced with direct marketing, Web marketing, advertising, collateral production, event support.
- 3-5 years experience of preparing tactical marketing plans, working to budget and time deadlines, and reporting ROI.
- Can set priorities and be flexible in changing environment. Able to adapt and work effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or groups.
- Strong project management skills and strength in managing multiple projects/deadlines.
- Creativity and imagination.
- Independence and diligence.
Education & Experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills and cost management skills.
- Working knowledge of MS Project, MS Access and MS Office Suite.
- 4-Year college degree
Senior Software Test Engineers – Plantation, FL
TradeStation Technologies has openings in our TradeStation Platform Client Agile Teams for experienced Client application Windows based Test Engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Testing of complex Windows based trading platform applications for accuracy, performance and stability.
- Test plan creation, automation and execution.
- Documentation and tracking of program defects.
Requirements:
- Must have a passion for analysis and testing.
- Strong technical skills and raw intellectual ability.
- Strong organization and prioritization skills as well as the ability to adapt and learn, communicate well and understand business strategy.
- 3+ years of professional experience as a Developer or Tester
- Broad knowledge of C#, C++, scripting languages and Windows programming.
- Experience with Testing Frameworks (Fit and nUnit), Mercury Quality Center tools is preferred.
- Knowledge of brokerage/financial services systems a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline is required.
Senior Software Engineers – Front End – Plantation, FL
Our Engineering Front Office Department is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement and maintain software applications; work with contacts from multiple departments on requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, roll-out and maintenance; provide thorough documentation for assigned projects; act as a Lead of certain projects and track and report status of assigned tasks.
The ideal candidate must have strong C++, OOD/OOP and Win32 SDK. MFC, ATL, COM, STL, multi-threading programming and XML. .NET framework, database development, web development and UI frameworks: StingRay, BCGSoft, preferable. Proficiency with development tools such as BoundsChecker, TrueTime, MemoryValidator, and VTune. The successful candidate must have strong analytical and design skills, follows best programming practices and produces high quality code. Provides accurate time estimates and complete assignments on schedule, exhibits abilities to learn and apply latest technologies to current development environment; very focused / self-driven, can work under little supervision in a standalone or team configuration, adheres to department policies and procedures (coding standards, etc…). Have the ability to work on multiple projects at once in a fast paced environment. New projects and legacy projects, demonstrated oral and written communication skills and ability to effectively discuss technical issues with non-technical audience.
BS in Computer Science or equivalent. MS preferred and 8 years of professional development experience using C++, MFC, ATL and COM.
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| If you are qualified and are interested in any of these positions, please submit your resumé to jobs@tradestation.com or via fax to 954-652-7039. |
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