Automated Options Trading, Leading High Frequency Trading Firm, Quant & Traders Required – Chicago recruitment

My client is a leading name in the high frequency trading space. With offices located in Chicago, New York, London and Singapore, they are actively trading high frequency, intraday strategies on all major exchanges in America, Europe and Asia. They are a self funded business, reliant on neither outside investment or private equity. Their commitment to excellence in terms of technology and recruitment, as well as an ongoing commitment to the development of their staff has seen them emerge as one of the industry’s leading firms.

My client is committed to developing a working environment that is second to none within the finance industry. The business is separated into over 20 different groups, each of which work in collaboration on automated strategies focusing on differing asset classes and time frames, making use of their exceptional platforms and technology support. Each of these pods is tasked with continually developing new strategies as well as maintaining and optimising their existing algorithms. My client is always striving to create new and novel ways of trading the world’s financial markets.

Ongoing expansion has seen the company broaden their exposure with the recent creation of an Equity Options group focused on creating Automated Market Making strategies. This new business area has already proved very successful and as a result it is the focus of their current expansion. They are looking for Quants and Traders to join them and help them to become the number one player in this area.

Trader Profile

-understanding of equity options trading (either single stock and index) – market making or liquidity taking

-understanding of risk management and hedging

-experience of PnL attribution and strategy optimisation

-mathematical background

-knowledge of R, Matlab or S-Plus

-strong communication and team working skills

Quant Profile

-understanding of equity option pricing (Black-Scholes, Stochastic Volatility, Volatility Smile etc)

Or

-experience creating market making or volatility arbitrage alpha signals

-strong statistical and probability skills

-strong programming in C++

-PhD from a leading university in a quantitative subject

-strong communication and team working skills

This is an opportunity to join a leading name in the high frequency trading space in a new area. They are known as very generous in terms of compensation and their radically low turnover stands as testimony to their excellent working environment.

If you would be interested in discussing this opportunity with me, please call Will on +44 207 604 444 or email your details to w.murday@njfsearch.com.