C++ Python Quant Developer Hedge Fund London £100K + Bonus
We are a new start-up Hedge Fund backed by legendary financiers and headed up by an experienced and well respected individual with excellent credentials and a track record to match. Our core ethos is to remain a leading technology company applying rigorous statistical and mathematical methods to investment management.
We are looking for recent masters or doctorates graduates in computer science or other numerical discipline. Candidates must have worked on multi-thousand line+ coding projects and want to apply their programming skills to quantitative problems. An ability to be practical rather than theoretical and good communication skills are essential, finance experience is not.
Requirements:
- Strong C++ and Python
- Knowledge of time series analysis / stochastic calculus / machine learning / data mining / code optimisation would be a plus
The job entails quite a range of potential responsibilities depending on your abilities and the needs of the business.
You may be required to:
- Implement trading strategies;
- Build tools and engines that improve our ability to analyse data;
- Work on complex computational and data-related problems and implement efficient an innovative solutions;
- Proactively develop tools to analyse data, models, and trading, and develop platform enhancements to improve the quality of our execution;
- Develop visualisations, and other analytics for live and experimental trading;
- Improve system component performance by orders of magnitudes by improving the underlying algorithms/ method of processing / identifying systems bottlenecks;
- Improve the accuracy of our trading simulator, analyse differences to actual trading, and then work to improve the correlation;
- Design extremely high-performance, highly-reliable and finely-tuned numeric computational programs and implement such models/algorithms in python and C++ language with production quality code;
- Monitor our trading system and fix production problems;
To do this effectively, you will need to be curious, intellectually honest, practical, purposeful, committed to high quality computer code and to apply clear judgment and critical thinking, as well as collaborate closely with others in the firm.
You will be joining a small team where your impact will be immediate and tangible and will be working with experienced hedge fund professionals who will teach you the business. We are open to hearing your ideas and encourage you to make suggestions on any area that can be improved.
We aim to reward people on their contribution to firm performance including helping others.
Benefits Package:
- £100k + Bonus
- 10% pensions
- Lunch is provided on site
- Flexible work hours
- 25 days holiday
Qualifications:
- 2:1 Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics similar scientific/engineering based study
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