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Final Israel Ltd. is one of the world’s leading high-frequency trading (HFT) companies.

As a major participant in the HFT industry,

the challenge Final faces is two-fold: to analyze large and complex data sets

off-line, as well as to process massive flows of real-time data.

As a DevOps engineer, you will have the opportunity to build an

E2E CI\CD pipelines from the ground up as well as be in charge of large

deployments and their healthiness. You will be working on monitoring, log

analysis, deployment, testing, rollout to production and much more.

Our ideal candidates are highly motivated

individuals with strong technical skills and a solid background and

understanding in DevOps methodologies, technologies, and tools.

Responsibilities:

· Enable and enhance team developer workflows by developing CI/CD and automation capabilities

· Leading the monitoring of the team’s offerings through logs, metrics, traces and more

· Taking part in a top-notch technology team, code reviewing and knowledge sharing

· Support the core research teams with their workflows using the team’s solutions

Requirements:

· At least 5 years of hands-on DevOps experience

· Experience (3+ years) in writing automation software in one or more languages, such as Python, bash, groovy or similar.

· Extensive knowledge of cloud, containers

· Experience with CI and orchestration servers (Jenkins, airflow etc.)

· Experience working with automated configuration management tools (Salt, Ansible, packer etc.).

· Experience with IaaC tools (terraform, heat, etc.)

· Experience with monitoring and log analyzing tools (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)

Advantages:

· Experience with large, offline on-premises production deployments.

· Good understanding in complex network solutions, SDN, CNI etc.

· Good understanding in complex storage solutions.

פיינל חורטת על דגלה מצויינות והשגיות בתחום המדעים המדוייקים לצד אנושיות ודרך ארץ. לכן כמיטב המסורת, גם השנה תעניק 15 פרסים בשווי של 10,000 ש"ח כל אחד

לסטודנטים מצטיינים לתואר ראשון בתחומי מדעי המחשב/ הנדסת חשמל/ מתמטיקה או פיזיקה

סטודנטים שעומדים בקריטריונים הבאים יוכלו להגיש מועמדותם

יתרת לימוד של עד שלושה סמסטרים

ממוצע ציונים 90 ומעלה

בעלי יוזמה, יצירתיות וסקרנות

עצמאיים, בעלי יחסי אנוש טובים ויכולת לעבודת צוות פוריה

השתתפות והצטיינות בפעילויות חוץ-אקדמאיות, כגון מעורבות חברתית, יזמות, השתתפות בפרוייקטים או עבודה בתעשייה

ניתן להגיש מועמדות לפרס עד לתאריך ה27.2

פיינל חורטת על דגלה מצויינות והשגיות בתחום המדעים המדוייקים לצד אנושיות ודרך ארץ. לכן כמיטב המסורת, גם השנה תעניק 15 פרסים בשווי של 10,000 ש"ח כל אחד

לסטודנטים מצטיינים לתואר שני בתחומי מדעי המחשב/ הנדסת חשמל/ מתמטיקה או פיזיקה

סטודנטים שעומדים בקריטריונים הבאים יוכלו להגיש מועמדותם

יתרת לימוד של עד שלושה סמסטרים

ממוצע ציונים 90 ומעלה

בעלי יוזמה, יצירתיות וסקרנות

עצמאיים, בעלי יחסי אנוש טובים ויכולת לעבודת צוות פוריה

השתתפות והצטיינות בפעילויות חוץ-אקדמאיות, כגון מעורבות חברתית, יזמות, השתתפות בפרוייקטים או עבודה בתעשייה

ניתן להגיש מועמדות לפרס עד לתאריך ה27.2

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities , multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being.

We are searching for an innovative Senior Software Engineer that will join us and be part of a SW team responsible of the full life cycle development of several web key applications including technical and statistical research, design, coding and integration. you will play a pivotal role in spearheading a transformative project aimed at replacing a monolithic software architecture with a more scalable and flexible microservices architecture. You will be an important part of leading the technological aspects of the project

This role will require you to lead the redesign of an important product , you will move fast and help deliver a state of the art products, you will be part of a smart, motivated, creative team of people who are filled with positive energy targeting to bring the best solutions to the finish line. 

In this role you’ll 

• Deliver scalable features to support Final’s vision in a timely and quality manner
• Building cutting-edge technologies that make a powerful impact on big amount of instances
• Tackle tough problems and find creative ways to solve them
• Produce (a lot) of high-quality, functional code that is readable, testable and maintainable
• Leverage our in-house autonomous tools to manage all development flow, from setting up our development environment to creating git branches and deploying services to production
• Be the owner of your domain to ensure code quality, performance, and scalability of our products
• Manage and complete tasks using TDD, continuous integration and modern development processes

• 4+ years working as a Full Stack engineer using FE and BE technologies in a web environment 
• In Depth understanding of OOP, SOLID and know functional programming principles
• Can understand and write multi-threaded code, specifically a web server's request lifecycle
• You care about design, are passionate about TDD methodology and microservices architecture, contributed to open source projects, take responsibility and can work independently
• Have an excellent understanding of database systems, relational and otherwise, including big data applications
• Are able to conduct performance analysis for a system and find its bottlenecks
• Experienced with Linux development and know your way around cloud environment
• Broad knowledge of modern backend and frontend frameworks, tools, and architecture
• Experience working on a high scale, production-grade projects
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or Mathematics (or equivalent experience) is a big plus
• Result oriented, self-motivated, fast learner, can do attitude and a great team player

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. 

 Our research is run by an outstanding team of brilliant researchers who love the extreme challenge of beating the markets. We consistently profit in challenging markets that get increasingly efficient. 

We have no customers, and no marketing. It is a pure technological and algorithmic challenge. Hence the time-to-market from a research idea until it is used and make profit by our trading machines is very short. 

In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being. 

Our unique research team is expanding, we are looking for smart and humble team members to join the team and solve complex problems. Our technical challenges include developing new trading strategies, , improving the performance of our algorithms, finding new ways to beat the markets. As an ML researcher you will collaborate with our R&D team to execute live trading strategies. If you are looking to make an impact by putting into practice successful ideas and seeing immediately the outcome, make influence on Final’s financial performance this is a great opportunity.

In this role you will:

• Mange and lead independent research applying ML/DL/Signal Processing/Data Mining to a wide variety of datasets.
•  Creatively find new trading strategies
• Work with other team members to optimize Final’s Algorithms

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, EE, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
•  5+ Years of experience of ML research/Deep Learning/Data Mining etc
•  Experience with software engineering in Python / C++
• Strong statistical analysis and mathematical skill
•  A great team player eager to share/learn/teach other team members.
•  Creative, self-motivated, love complex problems, determined

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being. 

We are searching for an innovative and experienced Senior Big Data Engineer that will join us and be part of our big data group. 

As a Senior Big Data Engineer, you will: 

• Lead the architecture and development of mission-critical, diverse and large-scale data pipelines over both public and on-prem cloud solutions. 
• Derive policies for data storage and versioning over peta-bytes scale complex storage solutions of multiple data lakes. 
• Design and develop smart ML infrastructure in order to build Agile ML processes (MLOps). 
• Work with Data Scientists to understand needs and design ML infrastructure solutions 
• Be a part of a collaborative heterogeneous data team which includes developers, data scientists, data engineers, MLOps and data scouts. 

• BSc / MSc degree in Computer Science/ Engineering / Mathematics or Statistics 
• At least 5 years of experience working as a Data Engineer or Data Architect or ML Engineer 
• At least 3 years of experience working in high level software development, preferably in Python 
• Proven hands-on experience in designing, developing and optimizing complex solutions that move and/or manipulate large volumes of data 
• Sound understanding of different big data file formats such as Parquet, Arrow, HDF5, etc. 
• Experience with Docker, Linux, CI/CD tools and concepts, Kubernetes. 
• Experience with data pipelining tools such as Airflow, Kubeflow, MLFlow and similar technologies. 
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed computing systems and related technologies (e.g., Spark, Hive) 
• Understanding of ML concepts and processes. 
• Result oriented, self-motivated, fast learner, can do attitude and a great team player

Advantage: 

• Experience and understanding of various storage solutions (NFS, S3, software defined distributed storage, etc.) 
• Experience working with data versioning tools such as DVC, LakeFS, GitLFS or similar technologies. 
• Experience working with AWS data processing tools and concepts. 
• Experience with large, offline on-premises production deployments. 
• Experience with Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter notebook. 
• Hands-on experience in lower-level programming languages such as C++ or RUST. 

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a strong background in both AWS and Azure to help design, implement, and optimize our cloud infrastructure solutions. This role requires deep technical knowledge in cloud services, automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and a hands-on approach to managing complex cloud environments. Experience with AWS CDK and handling network services via Azure ExpressRoute and AWS PrivateLink is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture Design: Architect and design scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS and Azure.
• Cloud Services Management: Lead the management of key cloud services such as Azure Virtual Machines, AWS EC2, Azure Blob Storage, AWS S3, Azure Virtual Network, AWS VPC, and networking features like Azure Load Balancer and AWS Elastic Load Balancer.
• Automation & IaC: Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
• AWS CDK Expertise: Utilize AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to define cloud infrastructure in code, enabling automation and repeatability.
• Network Infrastructure: Design and manage hybrid cloud environments using Azure ExpressRoute and AWS PrivateLink for secure, private network connections.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud solutions comply with security and governance standards by using tools like Azure AD, AWS IAM, AWS KMS, and Azure Key Vault.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Continuously evaluate cloud services for performance improvements and cost-efficiency.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure architecture, with deep expertise in AWS and Azure.
• Hands-on experience with key cloud services in both platforms, including but not limited to: AWS: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, Lambda, PrivateLink. Azure: Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL.
• Mandatory experience with IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
• Proficiency with AWS CDK (advantageous).
• Experience managing private network connections using Azure ExpressRoute and AWS PrivateLink (advantageous).
• Strong understanding of hybrid architectures, cloud security and compliance practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Advantages:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being.

We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our IT Production group. The ideal candidate is an all-around-player that will perform a variety of tasks. Developing and automating the IT infrastructure and supporting a unique and advanced AI research network. Maintaining a highly demanding and distributed WAN/LAN infrastructure maintenance, and supporting server side Linux based systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining the network's integrity includes implementing new systems, troubleshooting network issues
• Defining, installing and maintaining new network solutions
• Monitoring the network performance over time
• Full Responsibility on Network Observability
• Managing multi-vendor environment (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Nvidia, Fortinet)
• NETOPS attitude (network as a code, network automation, auto provision)
• Supporting various development Departments for all IT aspects
• Full responsibility on all the firewalls in the organization( Configuration , deployment , Tshoot ) 

• At least 3 years hands-on experience with networking and routing protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast, OSPF, BGP, etc
• Expert knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards
• Proven experience of using scripting (Python/Bash) to automate network tasks
• Experience in planning and designing projects and analyzing existing network systems and procedures for efficiency and effectiveness
• Analyze complex network issues using variety of tools
• Excellent communication skills and team player

Advantages:

• Manage Cloud environments and Services
• Strong Linux skills
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies
• Knowledge of monitoring and telemetry systems
• CCNP, JNCIS/P – preferred

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. 

 Our research is run by an outstanding team of brilliant researchers who love the extreme challenge of beating the markets. We consistently profit in challenging markets that get increasingly efficient. 

We have no customers, and no marketing. It is a pure technological and algorithmic challenge. Hence the time-to-market from a research idea until it is used and make profit by our trading machines is very short. 

In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being. 

We are looking for a Deep Learning Engineer to join a small, fast-moving, Deep Learning research team. You will be working closely with our researchers, developing tools and optimizing models in both offline and online environments.

In this Role you will :

·        Optimize models and pipelines for both Training and Inference speed on various hardware

·        Develop frameworks for managing large-scale fault-tolerant training runs

·        Manage training and deployment to production

·        Develop research infrastructure for experiment management

·        Build highly efficient data pipelines

·        Collaborate with researchers on algorithm design and implementation.  

• At least 5 years experience of SW development experience working in a high-scale environment
• Experience with Deep Learning infrastructure
• Proficiency in Python
• Have the resilience to solve complex difficult problems.
• Independent, focused, well organized, and capable of prioritizing and multitasking  
• Be proactive and detail-oriented, yet comfortable working in a dynamic environment with fast paced deliveries and changing requirements
• B.Sc with honor from a leading University

Advantages:

• Proficient in one or more general-purpose programming languages C/C++/Rust
• Data science/ML experience
• Experience working in research environment

 Soft skills :

• Eager to learn and teach others
• Open-minded in search of great ideas
• Team player, with strong feeling of responsibility on team’s products / solutions

Final is a world leader in trading algorithms and trade execution technologies development. Our multi-disciplinary teams have developed a unique and highly successful machine learning algorithmic based HFT platform that delivers excellent results. In a world increasingly dominated by learning machines and artificial intelligence, we at Final are especially proud of our humans. Our elite team of exceptional people are the soul of our company, and it is our top priority to provide them with a professionally fulfilling environment that supports healthy work-life balance. Our employees are encouraged to pursue their passions outside of work and we are proud to offer them a variety of opportunities, multiple resources and an agile work environment which promotes their well-being.

We are searching for an innovative Software Engineer that will join us and be part of a SW team

In this role you'll:

• Be responsible of the full life cycle development of several key applications including: Technical and statistical research, design, coding and integration
• Developing and integrating new and existing software as part of a large-scale system
• Tackle tough problems and find creative ways to solve them
• Write high quality, functional code using C++/Rust/Python
• Leverage our in-house autonomous tools to manage all development flow, from setting up our development environment to creating git branches and deploying services to production
• Be the owner of your domain to ensure code quality, performance, latency and scalability of our products
• Manage and complete tasks using TDD, continuous integration and modern development processes
• Coach and mentor other developers and help them elevate their skills while investing in your personal growth
• Be working independently but as a part of a strong and collaborative team

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (preferably cum laude, from a leading university)
• 5+ years of experience as a C++ software engineer
• Result oriented and experience in working on complex and large-scale systems
• Passionate about code, self-motivated, fast learner, can do attitude and a great team player