Newly Launched Options Market Making group recruitment
This is for a recently launched options market making business in Chicago. They now have trading groups in London and also Asia. The firm itself is long established and ranked top three in volumes traded on the major exchanges. They are recognized as a financial technology firm that remains on the cutting edge of algorithmic trading and highly profitable in equities and futures. In total there are more than five profitable groups and the structure is that lead traders are supported by a team of quantitative strategists.
We have several roles:
The volatility trader will need to come from an automated equity options desk (single stock ideally), 3 years minimum experience from a sellside market making desk. He/she will have responsibility for trading PnL, managing risk, understanding various quota and take out trading parameters.
The quant modeler will come from a Mathematical Science background, ideally PhD level. He/she will have acquired experience in building volatility surface estimation and equity option pricing models in C++ for listed equity options.