Quant Developer – Trading System – IIT/IISc/ISI/NIT HFT Talent

The Corporate Institute; India; Remote; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Corporate Institute in India is seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer to design and optimize high-performance trading systems. You will build robust market data infrastructure, reduce latency in execution, and collaborate with quantitative researchers to refine algorithms.

The successful candidate will lead a small team of junior developers, work on backtesting and live trading platforms (Python), and contribute to automated risk monitoring and performance optimizations across real-time

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on software development in high-performance computing or trading environments.
• Experience with building and optimizing low-latency systems.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable market data infrastructure for low latency and high throughput.
• Develop and optimize trading system algorithms to reduce latency.
• Improve backtesting and live trading framework (Python) for strategy validation.
• Build real-time monitoring and risk management tools.
• Lead and mentor a small team of junior developers (2-3).

Skills

C++

Python

Real-time processing

Algorithmic trading

Education

B.Tech/M.Tech CS/Math

Tools

Git

Linux

Job description

About the Role:

• We are seeking exceptionally talented Quantitative Developers who are passionate about designing and optimizing high-performance trading systems. This role involves building and refining trading infrastructure, handling vast amounts of market data, and collaborating with quantitative researchers to develop and enhance algorithmic trading systems.
• As a Senior Quantitative Developer, you will play a crucial role in strengthening our firm’s trading capabilities by building robust, scalable systems that process real-time and historical financial data with minimal latency.

Responsibilities may include:

• Market Data Infrastructure: Design and optimize scalable systems for high frequency & mid frequency market data capture and storage.
• Trading System Development: Enhance existing execution algorithms to reduce latency and improve execution efficiency.
• Backtesting and live trading Platform(python): Work on improving our in-house high- performance backtesting and live trading framework to validate and refine trading strategies.
• Automation & Risk Management: Build real-time monitoring and risk management tools to track live trading performance.
• Performance Optimization: Work on optimizing existing codebases for better speed, efficiency, and scalability.
• Mentorship and Team leadership: Lead and mentor a small team of upto 2-3 juniordevelopers.
• Guide them in their tasks and as a team complete big projects.

Requirements:

• Education: B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields from top-tier institutions (IITs, IISc, ISI, or equivalent).
• Experience: 3-5 years of hands-on experience in software development, preferably in a high- performance computing or trading environment. Preferably already being a senior engineer.