Elite Quant Trading Software Engineer

Goliath-Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 400,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Guaranteed bonuses

High total cash potential

Job summary

Goliath-Partners in New York is actively hiring across Software Engineering, Quantitative Development, and Quantitative Research to build the next generation of our trading platform. This is a lean, high-density room where your technical decisions directly impact PnL.

With nearly half the team holding PhDs from leading institutions, the environment rewards rigorous analytical challenge and pure research, with base salaries up to $400k and guaranteed first-year bonuses aiming toward $1M+ total

Qualifications

• Graduation from a top-tier university or an exceptional academic track record with top-percentile GPA/SAT
• Elite problem-solving ability with medals in olympiads or top Putnam rankings
• Love for rigorous analytical challenges as an academic at heart
• Active intellectual curiosity demonstrated outside work (e.g., chess, classical music, abstract math)

Responsibilities

• Join a lean, high-density team where your technical decisions impact PnL
• Contribute to building the next generation of the trading platform
• Engage in deep theoretical and applied research to drive performance
• Collaborate across software engineering, quantitative development, and research to deliver results

Skills

Elite problem-solving

Academic excellence

Analytical thinking

Intellectual curiosity

Education

Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field

Job description

Goliath-Partners in New York is actively hiring across Software Engineering, Quantitative Development, and Quantitative Research to build the next generation of our trading platform. This is a lean, high-density room where your technical decisions directly impact PnL.

With nearly half the team holding PhDs from leading institutions, the environment rewards rigorous analytical challenge and pure research, with base salaries up to $400k and guaranteed first-year bonuses aiming toward $1M+ total