A top hedge fund is looking to hire a quantitative developer to support their Equities Trading business. The fund manages roughly $15B in total assets and runs systematic investment strategies across both Equities and Fixed Income. This position will be directly supporting one of their Systematic Equity PMs who's been with the firm for more than ten years and has a well known reputation in the trading space.
The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of professional experience at a Bank, Vendor, or Hedge Fund, excellent coding skills in Python, knowledge of financial markets, and the commercial ability to communicate with stakeholders in a fast paced environment
Responsibilities:
- Develop python tools and libraries to be used in research, risk and trading
- Improve existing research and trading code build newer and more innovative tools to be used by investment teams
- Build and implement new, agile datasets to the platform in a flexible and high performing manner
- Innovate and improve the research platform
- Build dashboards to provide portfolio managers with insights to be used for investment decision making
- Build and implement platforms to be used for quantitative modeling
- Manage a team of developers to drive greenfield development projects
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant software engineering or quantitative development experience at a financial institution or fund
- Strong programming ability with Python, prior experience with C++ is a nice to have
- Prior experience with SQL
- Strong communication skills to interact with investment team
