Quantitative Developer/Trader, Systematic Equities

Quantitative Developer/Trader, Systematic Equities

Job Description: Quantitative Developer/Trader, Systematic Equities

Millennium is a top tier global hedge fund with a strong commitment to leveraging market innovations in technology and data to deliver high-quality returns.

Job Description

A small, collaborative, entrepreneurial quantitative systematic investment team is seeking a strong software developer with exposure to dev ops best practices and experience with equity trading, to join in building trading and research infrastructure. This opportunity provides a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent opportunities for career growth, with potential to grow into a research role.

Location

Asia (Aiming SG or HK)

Principal Responsibilities

• Assist with daily trade monitoring in Asia/Europe
• Design, code, and maintain team’s infrastructure, R/Python/KDB
• Improving performance and scale of our research infrastructure.
• Assist in data ETL and data gathering
• Perform data analysis and generate live and historical analytical reports
• Stay current on state-of-the-art technologies and tools including technical libraries, computing
• Collaborate with the SPM and the trading group in a transparent environment, exposure to a trading environment.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Bachelor, Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related STEM field
• Strong familiarity with the Linux operating system (shell / command line tools)
• 2+ years of experience programming in R or Python in a Linux environment
• Experience programming in KDB (Would be a plus)
• Experience with trading systems
• Understanding statistical concepts related to regressions and machine learning
• Demonstrate excellent communication, analytical and quantitative skills

Preferred Experience

• 2-4 years of software development experience in a systematic trading environment

Target Start Date

• As soon as possible