Quant developer – electronic market making recruitment
The quantitative developer will be developing the technology and implementing the strategies behind an industry-leading electronic market making business. This role interacts with traders and quants to define, implement, test, monitor and improve our trading models.
Main responsibilities:
• Building a high-frequency trading system for European Rates, working closely with the traders and quants to develop a framework that they can use to investigate and implement strategies.
• Building systems for trading in lower-frequency electronic venues, leveraging existing teams and systems for connectivity and integration.
• Work with the traders and quants to build pre- and post-trade analysis tools, visualization tools and data access APIs.
Skills and Qualifications
The ideal quantitative developer would have the following experience:
• Senior developer/quant developer on a financial software development team (at least 3 years in finance)
• Commercial development experience in at least 8 years total of C++ and preferably one other language.
• Front-office trading system development (trading/business logic), or Automated trading system development (programs trading without human intervention)
• Exposure to quantitative programming languages such as R, Matlab or S-Plus
• Working directly with traders and quants to build robust solutions to business problems
Proven ability to communicate with less technical users to understand requirements and implement appropriate solutions
• Successful track record of delivering working software quickly and improving it iteratively
• Strong interest in developments computing and trading technology and innovation
In addition, any experience with the following would be a plus:
• Low-latency/High-frequency trading systems, such as electronic market making or algorithmic execution
• Fixed Income (Cash, Swaps, Futures, Options, etc.)
• Functional programming languages and scripting, such as Scala, Clojure, F#, Haskel, perl, Bash, Python
• Agile development methodologies, such as Extreme Programming or Scrum
For more information or to apply, please send you CV to Vanessa Lofts on vlofts@kaizenpartnership.co.uk