Our Client is a proprietary trading firm focused on algorithmic trading. The current team is 70 members globally, with offices in India (Mumbai), Singapore, HK, Shanghai, London and San Francisco. The firm trades across asset classes (equities, commodities, currencies, options) on exchanges in India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, CME, LME, Russia and Brazil. There are a few more exchanges (Taiwan, Thailand, Australia) in the pipeline for the first half of 2017. A majority of what they do is HFT (defined as holding periods of a few seconds to a few minutes) but they have started diversifying into lower frequency strategies as well (2-3+ sharpe, holding period of a few hours to 1 day). Their infrastructure is low latency and currently the whole stack is in software (C++ on Linux). The wire to wire tick-to-order latency is sub 10 microseconds. They are colocated in all the exchanges and use low latency hardware (switches, network cards, overclocked servers, etc). Between two locations, they generally have the lowest latency fiber connectivity on the exchanges they trade on. There are 8-9 trading teams within the firm. The head of each trading firm is usually an experienced HFT trader. Senior traders from several large prop trading firms such as Tower Research, Jump Trading, KCG, IMC, Flow Traders, Susquehanna have joined as heads of trading teams over the past 5 years. A small trading team might have 2-3 members and a large team would have 8-10 members.
Our Client is looking for lead traders to establish new profit centres and to build out new groups of traders. They are relatively flexible about the location but have a preference to recruit into existing office locations.
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