Junior Quantitative Analyst

Remotestar; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company based in Bengaluru is seeking a Junior Quantitative Analyst to analyze market behavior and develop trading strategies. You will work closely with senior traders, utilizing your strong quantitative skills and programming knowledge in Python. Applicants should have a solid educational background in finance and familiarity with analytical tools like R. A NISM certification is mandatory for this role, which promises to be both challenging and rewarding.

Qualifications

• Basic awareness of financial markets and fundamentals.
• Strong logical and quantitative aptitude.
• Drive for working with big data analytical tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to build trading strategies.
• Evaluate profitability of trading signals.
• Automate trading strategies.

Skills

Logical aptitude

Quantitative aptitude

Programming in Python

Education

Degree in finance or related field

Tools

R

C++

Job description

We are an agile, young bunch. You will get to solve some extremely challenging engineering problems and shape the future of the fast paced Algo-Trading industry while working alongside other exceptional programmers, quants and traders.

Role Summary - Junior Quantitative Analyst

As a Junior Quantitative Analyst at iRage you will be involved in analysing market behaviour from both micro and macro perspective by:

• Analyse the data from the exchanges to build trading strategies
• Analyse activities of market participants at the microsecond time frame to ascertain micro behavioural patterns that can be traded successfully.
• At the same time, analyses information across a much longer time frame (and from other financial instruments, fundamental data) to build macro trading strategies.
• Aim to automate all the trading strategies built above
• Evaluate the profitability of various trading signals on various financial assets across various time horizons.
• Work with senior traders in the firm in performing analytical functions (profitability analytics, market trend analytics, etc) and prepare reports accordingly.

Required Skillset:

• Basic awareness of financial markets and fundamentals
• Strong logical & quantitative aptitude
• Strong educational background with a focus on finance
• Drive of working with big data analytical tools like R, etc. is preferred
• Good programming in Python (C++ is desirable)
• NISM certificate mandatory