Senior Quantitative Trader - HFT

Role:

We are looking for a suitable candidate for the position of Senior Quantitative Trader / Researcher for their HFT / MFT desk based in Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

- Analysing hundreds of gigabytes of data to ascertain micro behavioural patterns at the microsecond time frame to explore potential opportunities and strategies

- Building automated trading signals to drive decisions around strategy and its implementation

- Building engineering solutions to manage the complexity

- Discovering and imitating the logic and thereby automating the process of setting the hundreds of parameters that traders do on a daily basis

- Optimizing current trading strategies to improve the PnL

- Developing mathematical models to solve difficult stochastic problems

Required Skill Set:

- 5+ years of experience in quantitative trading

- Experience in successful implementation of profitable trading strategies from ideation to execution i.e. research, design, back-test and execution

- Knowledge and experience of working with big data analytical tools like R, Python, etc.

- Adept awareness of financial markets and fundamentals

- Strong logical and quantitative aptitude

- Strong educational background

- Knack of problem solving and a high inclination for math problems

- Designing new quantitative trading strategies

- Enhancing existing quantitative trading strategies

- Analysing the performance of deployed strategies

- Enhancing or building trading analytical tools

Desired Skillset:

- UNIX / Linux Scripting experience is desirable

- C/C++ programming language experience is desirable

- Prior experience of working with data tool sets like Bloomberg, etc. is preferred

Contact:

Shirin, 8369906992