Algorithmic Trading Data Analyst/Engineer
Quanta Search · New York, NY · 13 mo ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
The ideal candidate will be a highly analytical, motivated, and self-driven data engineer with a strong background in designing and constructing highly scalable and flexible data management systems.
Responsibilities
- Build, enhance, and maintain a 35 TB historical database that grows by about 200 GB every day.
- Closely collaborate with quantitative researchers to build/improve the necessary databases and services for their research.
- Work closely with the sales and other client-facing teams to provide analytical solutions to their questions about execution performance.
- Act as a mentor to other team members and coach them on best practices and engineering standards.
- Occasionally troubleshoot production issues when they occur.
Requirements
- Experience working with large financial datasets like market data, order/execution data, or positions data.
- Experience with data analysis using languages such as KDB+/Q, R, Python/Pandas.
- Comfortable with mathematical concepts such as regression techniques, and statistical analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own issues and solve them.
- Excellent team-player and communication skills.
Desired
- Experience with algorithmic execution and TCA especially in the futures/cash treasuries market.
- Familiarity with distributed trading systems/parallel computing.
- Proficiency with C++, REST APIs, and UI technologies/frameworks such as Node.JS, Angular.
Benefits
Commensurate with experience.
Pay
TBD
Schedule
TBD
Skills
Not specified
Qualifications
Not specified