Market Microstructure/Alpha Quant (Hong Kong)
Quantitative strategy is an integral part of our business and we seek a talented statistician and developer with a keen interest in tick data, to assist our trading team.
The successful candidate will work with the derivatives trading team to develop and improve trading strategies.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop algos to predict the short term movement of stock and futures prices in a low latency environment
- Take an idea from inception, through to detailed research, coding, and testing, and ultimately to production release
- Work closely with traders and IT
What you offer
- Masters or PhD in a quantitative discipline
- 2+ years experience working on market microstructure/alpha on the buy-side
- Experience with handling and analysing (back-testing) large tick data files
- Expert knowledge in a programming language (Java, C++, etc.) and a research language (R, Octave, Python, etc.)
- Experience working and communicating with traders
- Machine learning experience preferred
- Knowledge of execution algorithms and hedging is a plus
- Good command of spoken and written English
What we offer
- Young and casual work environment, but still results driven
- Life/work balance, in a multi-cultural environment with reasonable work hours
- Quickly growing company, encouraging the exploration of new technologies and ideas
- Flat management structure, where everyone is willing to voice his/her opinion
- Hands-on experience in the most exciting part of the financial industry
- Competitive salary, depending on experience
If you want to work in a fast paced and proactive working environment, allowing you to be highly visible and rewarded on your results, then joining us will be a positive change in your career.
Please send us your resume, along with availability, previous and expected salary (in PDF or MS Word format) directly by connecting on the career page of our website: http://www.eclipseoptions.com/careers/
All information provided will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.
For further information, please visit our website: http://www.eclipseoptions.com
Due to the high number of responses that we receive, we are only able to respond to successful applicants.
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