Quantitative Trader
Anson McCade
Paris
Quantitative Trader – Cash Equities, Futures and Options – London/Amsterdam/Paris
My client is a renowned quantitative trading firm operating at the forefront of the HFT/intraday trading space. The firm is looking for Quantitative Researchers and Traders covering Equities/Futures or Options trading who can build and lead a desk and trade their own strategies in return for a % of their PnL.
The firm can offer exceptional resources including cutting-edge infrastructure, allowing ultra low-latency execution while maintaining low costs and a quick time to market. They also encourage collaboration while allowing a high level of autonomy for each trading team.
The Role:
- Building and leading a desk where you will research and trade alphas based on analysis of market or alternative data.
- Researching signals, monitoring performance of models and optimising them where possible.
- Creating quantitative tools to aid the strategy development process, such as execution algorithms, modelling libraries, etc. for the rest of your trading team to use.
Requirements:
- A degree from a prestigious university in a numerate field. Previous successful candidates have degrees in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, etc.
- Coding proficiency in C++ and Python.
- At least three years of experience as a Quantitative Researcher/Trader, where you used sophisticated quant methods for the research and optimisation of strategies.
- You will need to be a confident, resilient, and highly motivated individual, capable of working collaboratively with your colleagues in your office and in other locations.