Quantitative Trader
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on electronic trading venues worldwide. You will learn trade floor operations through mentorship and training, work with software engineers to enhance strategies, and help operate trading technology and market strategies.
Requirements
- Excellent academic background
- Hard sciences preferred, including physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, or statistics
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills
- Strong mathematical aptitude
- Programming experience
- Ability to communicate information precisely and with agility
- Ability to identify issues and create solutions independently
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
- Prior trading, strategy game, or poker experience is helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- Design algorithmic trading strategies
- Operate algorithmic trading strategies
- Improve algorithmic trading strategies
- Learn trade floor operations
- Integrate strategies into deployment and operation
- Work with software engineers to enhance trading strategies