Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Research Technologist to work in their Chicago office. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, development and deployment of systematic trading research and simulation frameworks.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for enhancing and extending the infrastructure and underlying libraries that make up the platform.
- Communicate and collaborate with the research and trading teams to design and deliver innovative and high quality solutions.
- Provide day-to-day support for applications and the underlying infrastructure.
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in a financial engineer / quantitative developer role.
- 5 years software development experience in a role where C++ is used.
- Good programming skills and knowledge of computer science fundamentals (example: algorithms/data structures/OO design)
- Knowledge of basic statistics and their application in quantitative development.
- Good knowledge of Unix scripting.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Very strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Ability to demonstrate prior delivery in a demanding and fast paced environment
Experience:
- Experience working with automated trading system
- Experience in quantitative methods, including: solving numerical optimisation problems; statistical analysis; machine learning; predictive modelling.
- Detailed financial products knowledge, in one or more asset classes
- Experience working with quantitative researchers.
Education:
- Bachelor degree in quantitative/scientific discipline - Statistics, Physics, Maths, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Degree result of 1 or 2:1 (UK) or equivalent.
