Careers

Due to our exciting and rapid growth, HPR has a new and highly visible role for an Applications Engineer to help us provide world-class customer service for our clients trading in the US, EMEA, and APAC.

Hybrid role: This position will be supporting APAC working on a rotating schedule with the additional opportunities to advance your experiences in software, hardware, test or product management. 

Tasked with maintaining HPR’s reputation as the industry leader in pre-trade risk solutions, you will be:

• Resolving technically complex problems for some of the largest financial institutions in the world in conjunction with our engineering staff
• Leveraging your strong communication, troubleshooting, and technical skills to interface with customers and find solutions
• Responding to customer inquiries via phone, email and web
• Diagnosing problems and providing workarounds to customers
• Engaging and immersing yourself into the engineering team to expedite problem resolution and deliver the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or similar field
• 2+ years supporting business critical applications
• Ability and initiative to complete tasks and solve problems autonomously
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong Linux systems administrator skills
• Experience with Python and Shell scripting 
• Understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP, switch configuration, routing)

Desired Qualification:

• Familiarity with C programming
• Understanding of FPGAs
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

HPR is seeking a talented Campus Recruiter to attract and hire world-class software and hardware engineers to build the future of capital markets infrastructure.

As a Campus Recruiter at HPR, you will be responsible for attracting and hiring top university engineering talent, creating and implementing innovative campus recruiting strategies, organizing HPR’s internship program, and managing relationships with our academic institution partners.  You will collaborate with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and drive the entire campus recruitment process, from sourcing and interviewing to offer negotiations and onboarding. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of HPR by identifying and hiring the next generation of talent. This role will also expand into additional HPR recruiting initiatives outside of the university level in the campus recruiting off-season.

Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with key universities, student groups and academic leaders.
• Oversee and facilitate recruiting activities and on-campus events including career fairs, networking events, on-site interviews.
• Identify and attract top talent and manage candidates through the interview process.
• Maintain outstanding relationships and networks both internally and externally, staying current with the latest issues and trends within technical recruiting. 
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, create job descriptions, and manage the entire recruitment process.
• Coordinate interviews, conduct candidate assessments, and facilitate offer negotiations.
• Provide a seamless and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 1 – 10 years technical recruiting experience in a Campus, Corporate or Agency recruiting environment.
• Experience sourcing and closing technical candidates in a competitive market.
• Positive, optimistic, action-oriented individual with a ‘whatever-it-takes’ mentality.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to deliver compelling presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, faculty, and student organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Willingness to commute to HPR’s Needham office daily.

Please note: HPR currently does not provide H-1B visa sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software building systems that perform at levels beyond even medical device and aircraft industry standards. 

We are searching for a forward thinking Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.  

The Engineering Manager will report to senior leadership developing high performance software and hardware appliances and/or applications for the financial markets. This position requires a steadfast execution mindset, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate in a demanding environment while maintaining a composed, professional demeanor. A high degree of ownership, initiative, drive for excellence, and an aptitude for understanding and simplifying complex, diverse technologies are required to be effective in this role.

As an Engineering Manager at HPR you will:

• Leverage your proven team leadership skills to direct a group of engineers and deliver new products with minimal oversight
• Utilize strong organizational skills to distill complex project deliverables, milestones, and timelines into predictable team output
• Train and mentor engineering team members
• Demonstrate and instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the projects that you are leading within the team
• Leverage a strong technical background from any relevant domain to participate in the design and development of cutting-edge financial technology products
• Guide project phases through the HPR Engineering Process and ensure that Best Practices are adhered to on an ongoing basis

Required Qualifications:

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3+ years of managing and leading engineering teams
• 5+ years of hands-on development in a software engineering role in any relevant industry (not necessarily financial technology)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively within all levels of the organization
• A passion for organizing complex details and logistics planning for project deliverables
• Relentless sense of urgency and accuracy with an execution mindset
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Financial market knowledge
• Knowledge of C, Embedded Systems & Networking

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

HPR is seeking a System Network Engineer to design, build, deploy, automate, and monitor HPR’s global infrastructure. As the first full-time Network Engineer in a rapidly growing, early stage FinTech company, you’ll be collaborating with developers, designers, and programmers who live and breathe innovation. At HPR, we offer the opportunity to work with cutting-edge high-performance technologies, a collaborative work environment and competitive compensation/benefits in an easy-access, professional and fun setting. This is a great,home for well-rounded, talented tech enthusiasts. 

As a System Network Engineer at HPR you will:

• Design, build, deploy, automate, and monitor HPR’s global infrastructure
• Develop cutting-edge networking technology used by the world’s top financial institutions
• Perform packet inspection on financial application aware switches
• Support HPR IT operations
• Collaborate directly with clients and data center operations

Required Qualifications

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• 1-7 years of relevant work experience within similar environment
• Professional skills in Linux, distributed systems, networking, monitoring and automation.
• Experience with complex infrastructure deployments
• A passion and knowledge of High-Performance networking
• Aptitude to be multi-dimensional, acting as both a SysAdmin and Network Engineer
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams using a software and hardware stack
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with a configuration management tool such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef

Desired Qualifications

• Financial market knowledge
• Cisco Certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCIE SP, Network Programmability)
• Familiarity of C and C++

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room access, team events, free food, and more.

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

HPR is seeking a bright, motivated individual Office Manager with a “whatever it takes” mentality to support HPR’s office operations. Headquartered in Needham, MA, HPR is a rapidly growing FinTech company building the future of capital markets infrastructure.

Reporting to the VP of Finance and Corporate Operations, the Office Manager role is a multi-faceted position that requires exceptional organizational skills and the ability to collaborate with various team members and external vendors, while maintaining a composed, professional demeanor. A high degree of ownership, initiative, drive for excellence, and an aptitude for multi-tasking are required to be effective in this role.

At HPR, we offer a collaborative work environment with competitive compensation/benefits in an easy-access, professional and fun setting.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Execute and manage the administrative activities for the day-to-day operations of a growing tech company
• Ownership of daily company-wide lunch orders, office snack and drink program, and office supply inventory and purchasing
• Act as receptionist to greet visitors and vendors, and monitor HPR’s general inbox
• Provide a high level of customer service to team members, anticipating and assisting with routine questions and needs
• Office purchasing and related corporate credit card expense report preparation
• Point person for tenant relations, general building maintenance, and outside vendors
• Maintain office equipment and tidy up common areas including kitchens, supply/storage areas, welcome areas, and conference rooms
• Receive and sort incoming mail and deliveries, and assist with ad hoc shipping needs
• Planning and facilitation of company events, including monthly birthday celebrations, annual summer and holiday parties, and several other events/outings throughout the year
• Manage employee wedding/birth/bereavement gift program and holiday gifts for clients
• Assist the HR team with setting up workspaces for new hires and other employee onboarding tasks
• Scheduling and coordination of virtual and onsite interviews for the Recruiting team
• Provide administrative support to Executives and general staff as needed
• Assist with office expansion projects as needed, such as working with designers, furniture vendors, contractors, moving companies, etc.

 Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in office management, executive or administrative assistance, and/or event planning
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Strong problem-solving and reasoning skills to solve administrative issues
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including attention to detail
• Ability to effectively multi-task with a willingness to perform a wide range of tasks

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software.

We are searching for a forward thinking Senior Software Engineer to build the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will:

• Utilize your expertise in low-level programming as we advance the state of the art in high performance computing and electronic trading
• Provide the necessary guidance and hands-on delivery of the design, development, and debugging of C applications that run on multi-core Linux systems to process large amounts of high-throughput, low-latency network data
• Be a key contributor to our process and team culture, continually iterating on how we build products, not just on what we build
• Lead and mentor software engineers, encouraging our culture of continuous learning and collaboration
• Collaborate directly with customers that are using the products that you develop

REQUIRED SKILLS 

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3-10 years of relevant work experience
• Strong C programming skills
• Linux application development expertise
• Demonstrated ability to work through complex engineering obstacles and proven success leading engineering teams to efficient and accurate solution to these problems 
• Experience defining test scenarios and test cases to ensure quality of team deliverables
• Passionate about writing software that is clean, simple, and elegant
• Proficiency with concurrency and multi-threaded architectures
• Expertise with socket programming and TCP
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Shell

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with C++ and Java
• Financial market knowledge

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software.

We are searching for brilliant, forward thinking Software Engineers to build the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.

As a core member of a small team, you will have a visible impact as you push the boundaries of high-performance computing and solve problems that improve and strengthen low-level capital market infrastructure across the globe. You will work in a uniquely collaborative and agile software and hardware development environment, coordinating closely with teammates and regrouping through daily scrums. HPR’s culture is truly one-of-a-kind. We foster a positive climate of teamwork and collaboration. We love what we do and coming to work every day.

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room access, team events, free food, and more.

As a Software Engineer II you will:

• Utilize your expertise in low-level programming as we advance the state of the art in high performance computing and electronic trading
• Provide the necessary guidance and hands-on delivery of the design, development, and debugging of C applications that run on multi-core Linux systems to process large amounts of high-throughput, low-latency network data
• Become a key contributor to our process and team culture, continually iterating on how we build products, not just on what we build
• Collaborate directly with customers that are using the products that you develop

REQUIRED SKILLS 

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3-7 years of relevant work experience
• Strong C programming skills
• Linux application development expertise
• Demonstrated ability to work through complex engineering obstacles and proven success leading engineering teams to efficient and accurate solution to these problems 
• Experience defining test scenarios and test cases to ensure quality of team deliverables
• Passionate about writing software that is clean, simple, and elegant
• Proficiency with concurrency and multi-threaded architectures
• Expertise with socket programming and TCP
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Shell

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with C++ and Java
• Financial market knowledge

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship