Quantitative Trader – Trading Firm Callisto Talent Solutions

The Corporate Institute; India; Sur place; INR 1 500 000 - 2 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Corporate Institute is seeking a senior quantitative trader to lead a trading desk. You will develop profitable strategies across markets, manage risk, and work with developers to implement sophisticated trading/risk systems.

Strong leadership and ML/data analysis expertise are essential for driving performance. Applicants should have proven experience at a top trading or HFT firm, and a solid background in maths/CS with programming in C/C++, Java, Python, or Matlab.

Qualifications

• Experience with quantitative or statistical arbitrage or ML-based strategies.
• Experience at a top trading or HFT-based firm.
• Proven leadership and ability to manage research projects end-to-end.
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundations with large data sets.

Responsabilités

• Lead a team on trading desk building profitable strategies across markets.
• Work with developers to implement and optimize trading/risk systems.
• Analyze market volatility and trading performance to improve logic.
• Evaluate existing strategies and hedge/optimise risk exposure.
• Communicate findings clearly with peers and senior management.

Connaissances

Quantitative trading

Leadership

Statistics & data analysis

Programming in C/C++/Python

High-frequency trading experience

Communication skills

Formation

B.Tech / MSc / PhD in Maths/Physics/CS

Outils

MATLAB

R

Description du poste

One of our clients is a leading trading firm which strives to excel in electronic trading. We are a team of computer engineers and mathematicians building the most competitive automated trading systems. Technology is core to our business. We are using the cutting edge techniques to find relations and structures prevalent in data. We are building high performance trading platform to provide us competitive edge.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive and passion to lead a team and to work in an open, creative, and collaborative start-up environment.
• The profile of the person would be on the trading desk with experience trading in any markets across the world.
• Building strategies that are consistently profitable and have a proven track record (not just back-tested results) we are open to all markets and all asset classes
• Risk Management and Hedging.
• Analysis of market volatility.
• Analysis of trading performance and development of new logic to improve trading performance.
• Evaluation of the performance of existing and new trading strategies.
• Optimization of the performance of strategies.
• Work closely with developers to manage the development of sophisticated trading/risk systems which includes understanding requirements, developing new functionality, etc.

Essential Qualification and Skills:

• Experience working on quantitative or statistical arbitrage or machine learning-based strategies will be preferred.
• Excellent Return on Capital
• Experience at a top Trading firm or HFT-based firm
• Excellent leadership qualities
• B.Tech, MSc, or PhD from a top school in Maths, Physics, Computer Science, etc.
• Expertise in statistical techniques, and experience researching large datasets.
• Programming proficiency in either C/C++, Java, Python, R, Matlab, etc.
• Ability to work independently or as a part of a team, and to lead a research project from whiteboard to code implementation.
• Prior experience with algorithmic trading or familiarity with high-frequency financial data is a Must.
• Minimum 2-8 years of experience in the financial markets.
• Very strong communication skills- ability to present ideas and strategies clearly and interact well with both peers as well as senior management.