Job Description

Quantitative Developer will work as part of a portfolio-management team with a focus on systematic trading opportunities in equity options. The primary focus of the Quantitative Developer will be:

• Development and subsequent optimization of infrastructure supporting the overall development and production of quantitative trading models.
• Work directly with the quantitative researcher(s) and senior portfolio manager to implement technology to enable large-scale computational efforts in quantitative research, as well as related efforts, such as the preparation and transformation of data and other operational tasks.
• Work with senior technologists on the design and implementation of systems, and work closely with the quantitative research team to enable their mission.
• The successful candidate is expecting to put in an intense effort to be an early and pivotal part of the success of a quantitative trading group.

Principal Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager to develop data engineering and prediction tools primarily for the systematic trading of US equity options.
• Develop software engineering solutions for quantitative research and trading.
  • Assist in designing, coding, and maintaining tools for the systematic trading infrastructure of the team.
  • Build and maintain robust data pipelines and databases that ingest and transform large amounts of data.
  • Develop processes that validate the integrity of the data.
• Implementation and operation of systems to enable quantitative research, including large scale computation and serialization frameworks.
  • Live operation of such systems, including monitoring and proactive detection of potential problems and intervention.
• Stay current on state-of-the-art technologies and tools, including technical libraries, computing environments and academic research.
• Collaborate with the SPM and the trading group in a transparent environment, engaging with the whole investment process.