Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, London, and Singapore are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.

Old Mission does not seek capital from outside investors, allowing us the flexibility to aggressively invest in our team members and keep them engaged in the firm’s growth.

Company: Old Mission Capital, LLC

Job Title: Quantitative Trader

Job Location: 1 N. Dearborn Street, 8th floor, Chicago, IL 60602

Major Responsibilities: Engage with systematic medium or high frequency strategies for U.S. and Global Equities. Handle strategies that include market-making, stat arb or similar. Work on teams, in a collaborative environment, to seek out and profitably trade mispriced securities. Ensure disciplined decision making, risk management, derivative pricing, researching new opportunities as well as executing hedge trades. Also perform detailed research and analysis of live trading strategies as well as investigate new strategies and/or business opportunities. Use market making experience with company technology and make an immediate contribution to the firm.

Job Requirements: Applicant must possess a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Finance, Computational Finance or a related field, plus 4 years of experience in the equities trading industry. Additionally, the applicant must have professional experience with: (1) Experience with at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, Java, VBA, R, Matlab, or Ruby; (2) Developing statistical arbitrage strategies and managing risk; (3) Developing and testing various alpha strategies, signal tilting/combination logic, prediction indicators; (4) Identify, asses, and control threats to the organization’s capital and earnings; and (5) Portfolio management and relative value pricing. Series 7 license from FINRA required.

Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing/search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing/search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission.