Globally leading principal trading organisation with a flat organisational structure and team based approach is looking to hire an experienced quantitative technologist with deep expertise in Java and Python to join one the London based Equity Options Market Making team. The group trades a range of strategies on EU Equity options markets, both automated and non-automated, under its non-restrictive mandate offering the team the freedom to innovate and show creativity in the strategies and solutions it develops. The lack of a hierarchical structure allows for significant technological autonomy and freedom from executive technology mandates.
What you’ll be doing:
- Working as part of a team to define, design and deliver front-office trading systems
- Supporting and extending existing systems as well as green field development
- Collaborating with various trading desks, IT, and other business units
- Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level
Education:
- BSc (Or above) in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, Statistics, Physics or similar
Experience:
- 5+ Years’ Java Experience
- Strong quantitative skill set
- Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas of particular interest)
- Full stack Linux development experience
- Understanding of concurrency, object oriented programming, distributed systems
Preferred experience:
- Experience with options trading systems and/or volatility modeling
- Experience with TDD and other agile software development techniques
- Network programming experience
- Experience with front end web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript etc.)
- Some C# experience (or a willingness to learn)
- C++ and/or Python
