Python Developer

A global multi-billion electronic trading firm is hiring a Python Developer to join a growing team in their Chicago office; hybrid and fully remote working available. This is a tech-driven, top-performing systematic trading firm that trades high-frequency across a range of asset classes using cutting-edge low latency technologies, algorithmic trading strategies, and mathematical models.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will ensure the smooth running of global trading operations by enhancing the global compliance & risk monitoring systems used at the firm. Work closely with risk, compliance & market data to design and build tools and automated data flows that provide transparency to the business.

Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Architect, design and implement enhancements for our global compliance monitoring systems, predominately using Python.
• Process live streams of market data in a decentralized, highly scalable system.
• Produce reports and alerts that are clear, timely, and actionable.
• Own assigned development tasks, writing clean and maintainable code and building large distributed systems.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to understand business problems, changing priorities, and devise technical solutions.

Requirements

• Multiple years experience working with Python in a professional production environment
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL
• Experience with Kafka
• Highly collaborative in nature, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with the trading domain and finance is strongly preferred, but not required
• Proven ability to communicate with less technical users to understand requirements and design and implement appropriate solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
• Experience with web development using React is a plus
• Experience working with Pandas is a plus

Fully remote is available.

Outstanding compensation and benefits package on offer to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, paid cash for a free breakfast, and lunch healthy snacks, wellness reimbursement, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

Please apply or feel free to email Daniel Tuppen: dtuppen@algocapitalgroup.com

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Architect & Technical Lead.

A global systematic investment company is hiring a Senior Architect TO re-architect a multi-billion build-out for an entire firm's next-generation trading software system services and components across all of the trading execution, market data low latency infra; lead the technical gathering of use cases, determine scope and requirements; Lead and participate in design discussions with trading, CTO and. Create documentation for design/API/protocols, and use cases and manage the front-to-back design and implementation for a multi-billion trading platform.

Looking for an experienced candidate to lead this project with robust technical and technical leadership experience as well as high-level HPC architecture skills as this is re-architecting a multi-billion low latency trading platform.

Candidate experience

• Java, C++, C# or Python hands-on programming experience.
• Is a well-seasoned trading technology professional who has experience with architecture and design and building trading systems.
• Experience in as many areas in trading technology is preferred.

Excellent opportunity huge progression on offer please apply ASAP or reach out to Megan Murphy @ mmurphy@algocapitalgroup.com to discuss further.

Architect & Technical Lead.

A global systematic investment company is hiring a Senior Architect TO re-architect a multi-billion build-out for an entire firm's next-generation trading software system services and components across all of the trading execution, market data low latency infra; lead the technical gathering of use cases, determine scope and requirements; Lead and participate in design discussions with trading, CTO and. Create documentation for design/API/protocols, and use cases and manage the front-to-back design and implementation for a multi-billion trading platform.

Looking for an experienced candidate to lead this project with robust technical and technical leadership experience as well as high-level HPC architecture skills as this is re-architecting a multi-billion low latency trading platform.

Candidate experience

• Java, C++, C# or Python hands-on programming experience.
• Is a well-seasoned trading technology professional who has experience with architecture and design and building trading systems.
• Experience in as many areas in trading technology is preferred.

Excellent opportunity huge progression on offer please apply ASAP or reach out to Megan Murphy @ mmurphy@algocapitalgroup.com to discuss further.

Senior Software Developer

A multi-billion global hedge fund in systematic trading is hiring a Senior Software Developer. Our client is looking for a high-performing, driven, and a dedicated individual contributor to join a growing team responsible for designing and implementing firm-wide software services.

This role is extremely broad, and you will focus on a range of different projects- from the front office, back office, reference data, real-time data, and many other areas. As this is a senior role you will have the opportunity to mentor and train junior members of the team.

Responsibilities

• Development of firm-wide software system services and components

• Design and implement/delegate

• Gather use cases, and determine scope and requirements

• Lead and participate in design discussions

• Implement and/or lead others in implementing

• Manage project expectations, progress, etc.

• Document, train, and improve

• Create documentation for design/API/protocols, use cases, and support

• Lead post-project reviews, gather feedback, and distill lessons

• For each project, learn and incorporate existing technology products (3rd party and proprietary) as appropriate

• Mentor and train junior members of the team, and review pull requests

Candidate Requirements

• Professional, multi-year experience in Java (primary), C++, Python, Rust, Ruby on Rails, Go, etc.

• Organized and coordinated thought process; easily navigate abstractions and black boxes

• Concise and precise communication skills

• Experience working in the trading industry; front office and/or back-office systems

• Experience working with exchange or software vendor APIs for orders, market data, or positions

• Experience working with real-time data

• Ability to empathize with stakeholder wants, and still discern stakeholder needs

• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structure, algorithms, one or more strongly typed programming languages)

• Experience programming with 3rd party APIs

• Able to work productively with members from multiple teams

• Calmly assess and take ownership of difficult-to-solve problems

• Motivated to learn from others and teach others

• Creating APIs for use by other developers

• Computer Science Undergraduate Major

• Prior experience training and mentoring recent college hires

This role will expose you to the whole life-cycle of trading at one of the leading trading firms globally. You will have the opportunity to work with the top AI and machine learning cutting-edge technologies with one of the leading global trading firms. You will be working in a high-paced, challenging team that will enable you to showcase your ability!

Please feel free to apply here or email me: hhicks@algocapitalgroup.com

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Software Engineer- Infrastructure

A multi-billion global hedge fund in systematic trading is hiring a Software Engineer. Your responsibilities will include all areas of software engineering, including requirements gathering working directly with traders on the design, development, implementation, and managing end-to-end lifecycle.

This is a unique opportunity to join an elite team tasked with building infrastructure for a proprietary options trading platform. The software engineer will be passionate about trading, particularly the options market, and will learn a lot working with the top traders in the industry.

Candidate Requirements

• Have experience using Java or Python

• Can work proficiently in a Linux environment

• Can demonstrate expertise in complex systems or distributed programming

• Can demonstrate expertise in data analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or signal processing

• Can work comfortably in multiple programming languages

• Have a BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or Engineering

Bonus Points

• Experience with network and concurrent programming involving low latency and high message rates

• Contributed to open source projects in a challenging field

• A strong understanding of hardware/software interaction

• A demonstrated interest in keeping up with new developments in programming languages and other relevant technologies

This role will allow you to work with the top AI and machine learning cutting-edge technologies with one of the leading global trading firms. You will be working in a high-paced, challenging team that will enable you to showcase your ability!

Please apply to the role directly, or feel free to email me: hhicks@algocapitalgroup.com

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Risk Analyst

A multi-billion global hedge fund in systematic trading is hiring a Risk Analyst. You will work across a wide variety of asset classes to deliver risk analytics and implement/monitor risk data controls. You will also work closely with Risk Managers to configure and improve risk systems, methodologies, and limits.

This role also involves frequent interaction with risk developers and collaboration with other groups across the firm. Over time, this role offers the opportunity to grow into risk management responsibilities, including monitoring markets and risk drivers across portfolios, evaluating new trade/strategy ideas, and communicating with traders/senior management when risks grow beyond established tolerances.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and implement risk dashboards to improve transparency across various products

• Build and improve tools and configure models to help manage risks

• Run and automate analysis processes and perform ad hoc data analysis

• Validate and support risk models, methodologies, and risk management reports

• Actively participate in the risk oversight process (control, monitor, track)

• Assist in the preparation and review of external reporting and audit information

• Periodically contribute to risk management activities, which may include market and risk monitoring and exception monitoring and tracking

• Identify opportunities for innovation within executed tasks, processes and projects that contribute to the improved efficiency and effectiveness of the team

• Collaborate with software developers to maintain or productionize risk tools

Requirments

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or quantitative field (Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Financial Math, Statistics, Computer Science)

• Experience as a Risk Analyst or similar role

• Knowledge of financial markets and financial instruments; exposure to related risk analytics and pricing preferred

• Previous programming or scripting experience (using Python, R, VBA or similar) required

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Excel and related advanced features

• Proficiency in SQL to analyze and manage large data sets

• Strong analytical and organizational skills with acute attention to detail

• Flexibility to provide on-call support as needed

• Ability to balance tactical and strategic initiatives and changing priorities

• Motivation to continually expand skillset and improve supported systems

This role will allow you to work with cutting-edge technologies with one of the leading global trading firms. You will be working in a high-paced, challenging team that will enable you to showcase your ability!

Please feel free to apply here or email me: hhicks@algocapitalgroup.com

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Software Engineer – FICC Options

A multi-billion global hedge fund in systematic trading is hiring a Software Engineer. Your responsibilities will focus on the design, implementation, and operation of automated liquidity provisioning systems for options: integrating real-time risk pricing, alpha views, market signals, and insights from market surveillance.

This position will allow you to work closely with traders and quantitative researchers to monetize market insights into production trading systems in a continuous, iterative, and collaborative environment. These systems support all assets traded by FICC, including rates, FX, energy, agricultural products, precious metals, and cryptocurrency derivatives.

Candidate Requirements

• Have experience building and running production quantitative services in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding field

• Can demonstrate expertise in network and concurrent programming involving low latency and high message rates

• Can demonstrate expertise in statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or signal processing

• Can operate in multiple language domains (proficient in at least 2 of Python/JAVA/C++/Rust)

• Have at least a B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or Engineering from a top university

Bonus Points

• Understanding of hardware/software interaction

• Experience with complex systems, distributed systems, or enterprise data architecture

• Experience in option pricing or order management and execution

This role will allow you to work with the top AI and machine learning cutting-edge technologies with one of the leading global trading firms. You will be working in a high-paced, challenging team that will enable you to showcase your ability!

Please feel free to apply here or email me: hhicks@algocapitalgroup.com

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Our client is looking for a Market Data Software Engineer on their Market Data Systems team, you will play an integral role in all operational aspects of onboarding, managing and maintaining various datasets (real time and historical) used by traders and quantitative researchers to analyze financial markets, determine trading opportunities, and establish trading strategies.

What you will do in this role

• Be a subject matter expert in market data platforms, consisting of real-time platforms and generic financial time series platform
• Work closely with traders, researchers and engineers to integrate market data platform into research lifecycle
• Interact with researchers to identify required data feeds and onboard them
• Enhance market data platform for internal data publishing
• Propose solutions for various integration use cases for internal systems

What you will need in this role

• Experience in market data systems (OneTick, Activ Financial, KDB, B-Pipe, Elektron)
• Experience in working with datasets of any shape or form (timeseries, reference data, fundamental data, etc.)
• Knowledge in data-related concepts (metadata, descriptive metrics, attributes, properties, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with databases and query construction
• Programming skills: Python/C++
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize multiple tasks and projects, and efficiently handle the demands of a trading environment.

Additional skills or experience which enhance consideration for this role

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers (S3, Athena)
• Prior experience working with a variety of financial data providers and exchange data
• Prior experience working with traders and quantitative researchers
• Familiarity with real time software concepts

Our client is looking for a Market Data Software Engineer on their Market Data Systems team, you will play an integral role in all operational aspects of onboarding, managing and maintaining various datasets (real time and historical) used by traders and quantitative researchers to analyze financial markets, determine trading opportunities, and establish trading strategies.

What you will do in this role

• Be a subject matter expert in market data platforms, consisting of real-time platforms and generic financial time series platform
• Work closely with traders, researchers and engineers to integrate market data platform into research lifecycle
• Interact with researchers to identify required data feeds and onboard them
• Enhance market data platform for internal data publishing
• Propose solutions for various integration use cases for internal systems

What you will need in this role

• Experience in market data systems (OneTick, Activ Financial, KDB, B-Pipe, Elektron)
• Experience in working with datasets of any shape or form (timeseries, reference data, fundamental data, etc.)
• Knowledge in data-related concepts (metadata, descriptive metrics, attributes, properties, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with databases and query construction
• Programming skills: Python/C++
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize multiple tasks and projects, and efficiently handle the demands of a trading environment.

Additional skills or experience which enhance consideration for this role

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers (S3, Athena)
• Prior experience working with a variety of financial data providers and exchange data
• Prior experience working with traders and quantitative researchers
• Familiarity with real time software concepts

DevOps Engineer - Crypto

The digital assets arms of a multi-billion global hedge fund seeks to bring a DevOps Engineer - Crypto to join a growing, tech-driven trading team. This is a newly created role to design and support highly available systems in a technologically diverse stack used to research and trade crypto assets globally. Leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python, Prometheus and Grafana, you will build repeatable and supportable infrastructure that meets the demanding needs of our business.

The successful candidate will participate in designing and supporting highly available systems, continue to push efforts for building out infra on Kubernetes, enhance monitoring infra using Prometheus, Grafana, Alerta and Splunk, and enhance CI/CD processes leveraging declarative configuration tools.

Candidate requirements:

• Prior experience supporting mission-critical, high-performance trading applications
• Deploying and supporting applications in Kubernetes
• Monitoring applications using Prometheus and Grafana
• Developed CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments
• Solid Python experience
• Database support for highly available systems
• Previous Linux platform support experience
• Self-motivated to continually expand skillset and improve supported systems
• Demonstrated high level of ownership and accountability
• Ability to handle pressure and time constraints with composure
• Strong organizational skills, including planning, prioritization, and documentation

Please apply or feel free to email Daniel Tuppen: dtuppen@algocapitalgroup.com

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