What are the responsibilities and job description for the Low Latency Multi-Asset Algorithmic Trading Quant Developer position at Quanta Search?
Our client is one of world’s leading providers of advisory and capital market services and the premier provider of liquidity to corporations, governments, and institutions. In the world’s key financial centers, we partner with our clients to deliver innovative financial solutions that help them achieve their strategic and financial goals. Within the firm, the Quantitative Modeling and Analytics team provides models, analytics, and quantitative support to the fx, rates, credit, and commodities business units to enable them to achieve these goals.
Due to continuing business growth, they are looking to hire an individual to join the algorithmic quantitative analytics team within the QMA group. This individual will be responsible for a range of tasks including
- Work with senior trading, quant / quant dev, business, and technology management to drive the continued growth of the eTrading business across all foreign exchange, fixed income, and interest rate products
- Develop and support pricing, hedging and algorithm trading models and software for electronic trading in fixed income, foreign exchange and interest rate markets
- Develop tools and perform analysis of electronic trading and markets in areas such as liquidity, market structure, profit and loss, and transaction cost analysis
- Maintain strong knowledge of current markets, technologies, vendors, trends and innovations and adapt the technology and analytics approaches as appropriate
- Partner with other areas including technology, risk management, and compliance to deploy new or enhanced models and components to production
The successful candidate will demonstrate skills in multiple distinct areas including
- 5 years of experience in developing electronic and algorithmic trading models and tooling
- Superior software skills in Java and Python, experience with time-series databases (e.g. kdb) is an advantage
- Demonstrated experience in hands-on development and deployment of major components into production trading systems
- Good understanding of complex event processing, low latency and low/zero GC development
- Superior analysis and debugging skills in support of active production trading operations
- Strong knowledge of electronic and algorithmic trading markets and products in both fixed income and foreign exchange
- Commercially oriented with a pragmatic approach to project development and delivery
- Outstanding communication and team-working skills
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines
