u/Commercial_Prune_909

I got offered a Trading DevOps role at a large national bank, meaning the role entails working with their internal trading platform. Not really algo trading just the platform that their trading desk uses for equities. Eventually I want to break into HFT firms as a software engineer or similar. I’m not sure that this role is the right path, since it’s DevOps and the tech stack is probably a bit different. A lot of python scripts, SQL etc rather than traditional software engineering with focus on code optimization. Should I accept or continue looking for more traditional SWE roles, even if it is not within finance?