Quant Developer, Analytics and Middle Office
Diversified proprietary trading firm trading its own capital, headquartered in Chicago
| Employer | Diversified proprietary trading firm trading its own capital, headquartered in Chicago (not named) |
|---|---|
| Location | Chicago, IL · On-site |
| Type & level | Full-time · Mid-level |
| Pay | USD 150k–200k base Source: pay range stated in the source posting |
| Visa path | O-1A fit |
| Role family | Quantitative Developer / Low-Latency Engineer |
About the role
This team builds services that compute analytics across many asset classes, run what-if scenarios on theoretical market outcomes, and return results for any time horizon. It works with risk managers and trading desks to measure option and rate sensitivities, and is expanding its technical capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design and implement financial modeling solutions with stakeholders and quantitative teams
- Architect scalable analytics systems using finance and quantitative analysis knowledge
- Write readable, well-tested code in several languages and platforms
- Build applications to monitor, manage and report analytic measures
- Collaborate with business, development, IT and trading support teams
- Support users with testing and questions, and take part in the on-call rotation
Requirements
- Applied mathematics experience such as linear algebra, optimization and numerical methods
- Strong understanding of statistics and probability
- Experience with quantitative modeling of financial products and derivatives
- Fluency in functional, object-oriented or imperative programming languages
- Competence with distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Proven software engineering experience in trading or finance
Nice to have
- Familiarity with one of Elixir, Python, Java or C#
- Familiarity with a systems language such as C, C++ or Rust
- Familiarity with pricing, risk management and portfolio analytics
- Knowledge of exchange-traded assets, statistics or financial engineering
- Data structures and algorithm design and analysis
Pay & benefits
USD 150k–200k base. The posting lists an annual discretionary bonus, group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, a 401k with discretionary employer match, disability, life and AD&D insurance, HSAs and FSAs.
Pay source: pay range stated in the source posting. Market data, not an offer from O1DMatch.
Visa path
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