Overview
Quantitative Developer sought to join the Florida-based offices of a well-known provider of systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange.
The firm is looking for a senior programmer/developer with extensive financial industry experience to join a newly formed team focused on convertible bond and capital structure arbitrage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement the core data infrastructure and trading systems
- Develop robust data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and analyzing financial market data, including unstructured OTC data
- Build scalable and efficient trading algorithms from scratch
- Create tools for backtesting, risk management, and performance analysis
- Collaborate closely with team members to translate trading ideas into production-ready systems
- Establish best practices for software development, testing, and deployment
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- 10+ years of software development experience, with at least 7 years of experience in financial institutions (e.g., hedge funds, investment banks, proprietary trading firms)
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or related quantitative field preferred
- Proven track record of architecting and building large-scale financial software systems from inception
- Deep understanding of financial markets, particularly in corporate bonds, equity derivatives, and equities
- Expert-level proficiency in Python with demonstrable projects in financial applications
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing data infrastructure for financial applications
- Strong background in distributed systems and high-performance computing
- Familiarity with financial regulations and their impact on system design and implementation
- Previous experience in launching or joining early-stage trading teams preferred
- Proficiency in C++, SQL, R, and Bloomberg APIs preferred
- Track record of leveraging AI/ML technologies, especially LLMs, in financial applications preferred
- Experience with cloud technologies and their application in financial services preferred
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
