“Start-up” High Frequency Multi-Billion Dollar funding looking to hire Extremely talented Quantitative Researchers/Strategists & Software Engineers (Java/C++) – Circa $500k TC recruitment
Fantastic Opportunity for experienced Quantitatvie Researchers and software engineers to join a start-up environment at a company that has been existence for around 8 months. Already, they employ 20 people, with aggressive plans to hire up to 40 people in the next 12 months. The company has not made a single trade yet, but is investing heavily in its low latency trading infrastructure in order to facilitate high frequency trading on a number of electronic markets worldwide. The firm is headed by 2 people with a huge amount of experience in high speed trading who have secured a huge amount of funding to invest in technology infrastructure and trading - as well as their own money which is being invested in technology and will be traded.
The firm is interested in talking to engineers from outside of the finance industry that have a good understanding of C/C++ or Java, who like low-level, compact coding and some healthy scepticism about OO. Applicants that love technology and optimisation, understand networks, network programming and problems associated with latency in real-time systems are very interesting to my client. Applicants that have worked within finance are not discouraged from applying, but prior knowledge of finance is not seen as adding any value given the research-like nature of this project.
In electronic trading, this is one of the most ambitious projects worldwide. Already the company has solved some long existing problems that exist at the intersection of technology and trading and have pioneered techniques that are likely to revolutionise the speeds at which trades can be executed. This research is based on an incredibly diligent, systematic approach to every aspect and variable associated with speed and latency within trading, combined with some groundbreaking mathematics used to solve complex computer science problems that have remained unsolved within University / Research environments for many years through dis-interest and lack of funding. This is an extremely well funded project. By many measures the amount of money being spent on research is dis-proportionate in comparison with other companies worldwide, but the founders and backers believe so strongly in their vision of creating a truly world class infrastructure which will have an incredible upside when (almost 0 human intervention, computerised, automated) trading starts.
If you have any of the above experience and would like to find out more information about the fund or jobs, please either call 0203 145 1511 in strictest confidence or email ubalal@westbourne-partners.com or alternatively call my cell on +44 776 927 5537.
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