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Our client is one of the world’s most active proprietary trading firms and a key market maker in various products listed on exchanges throughout the world. The firm was founded in 1989 and is a global financial organization, made up of two different divisions with trading operations that operate independently of one another including a securities trading division and an asset management department. The company employs over 600 people and has offices located in Amsterdam, New York City, Chicago, Hong Kong and Sydney. The Group is a market maker active in over 100 trading venues throughout the world and offers liquidity to over 200,000 through their securities division. The securities department makes markets in the major exchange traded instruments including equities, bonds, commodities and currencies, on 100 exchanges worldwide and is a significant liquidity provider on the NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, CBOE, BATS, CME Group, and ICE exchange among others. In May 2014, our client agreed to purchase rights to become a Designated Market Maker from Goldman Sachs. The agreement will allows the firm to operate as a designated market maker in over 600 stocks on the NYSE and to expand its ability to offer liquidity to the market.

Key Responsibilities 

• As a trader, you will be responsible for optimizing trading strategies and calibrating the trading logic.
• The focus will be on screen trading using automated market making algorithms developed by the research team.
• The role will involve parameter tuning, conducting market microstructure studies as well as acktesting and analysing trading strategy behaviour in simulation and live production. 

Skills and Qualifications 

• BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
• 2-3 years' experience working as a high frequency trader.
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, Kaggle or Olympiads 
• Smart, driven, curious, fast thinker, agile mind.
• Matlab / R / Java

If you would like to be considered for the position of High Frequency Trader, or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team.