Quantitative Developer - New York - Trading firm
A well established Hedge fund is looking for an experienced Quant developer to join their new systematic trading team - to help productionize systematic alphas and develop a next generation data platform.
You'd be joining their dedicated quant team, a fairly new addition to the company, that has scaled quickly and generated significant PnL over the last 2 years. They're currently a team of 8 running a $400m book that they’re looking to expand to over $1bn USD.
You’ll be working alongside the lead Alpha researcher implementing new alphas into production on a daily basis. You will also be responsible for developing and managing a next generation data platform including data pipelines and data access APIs.
This is a great opportunity to become a pivotal member of a small team, that is well resourced and actively expanding.
Expertise with OOP Python as well as PySpark and Pandas is a necessity. Additionally, experience doing Machine learning modeling is highly advantageous
The right candidate will have worked within a trading environment for over 5 years.
Responsibilities
- Helping productionize systematic alphas
- Building and maintaining the groups data platform
- Developing ETL pipelines and data access APIs
Requirements
- At least 5 years worth of experience working at a trading firm or hedge fund
- Strong python skills - including pyspark experience
- Experience working closely with traders and researchers
- Experience building ETL pipelines