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Our quant business is expanding and as a result we are looking for a small number of exceptional technologists to build solutions for the desk and the underlying quant research and trading platform.

You will work closely with quant portfolio managers converting research ideas into production trading strategies, building research infrastructure (market data, backtest, compute) and trading platform (position, risk, controls, strategy frameworks, deployment, visualization, observability). Your code will trade billions of dollars and as a result we value the ability to move quickly, with attention to detail and engineering fundamentals to build clean code that is tested, trusted and can be leveraged by other engineers and Quant PMs.

Position Requirements

MS in Computer Science or financial engineering degree
5+ years of experience with Python in a systematic role
Strong software engineering fundamentals: you can write well designed, clean code with excellent test quality
Experience writing mission critical production code with a strong attention to detail
Market knowledge of FX, Futures or Options trading is not required but beneficial
Experience with implementing systematic trading strategies or building trading platforms (systematic, HFT or execution)

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Quantitative Developer - Systematic Trading