Bitfex - Quant Trader

- Your responsibilities may include any of the following, which will require you to exercise discretion and independent judgment:

- Designing, implementing, and deploying high-frequency trading algorithms

- Exploring trading ideas by analyzing market data and market microstructure for patterns

- Creating tools to analyze data for patterns

- Contributing to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading

- Developing, augmenting, and calibrating exchange simulators

- Communicating with internal and external trade support, market centers, and other parties to handle real-time trading issues and improve understanding of specific markets

- Shaping the future of Tower through regular interviewing and infrequent campus recruiting trips

Qualifications:

- You are talented, driven, and hungry for a challenge. You believe that there's no limit to what we can accomplish together in a creative, collaborative setting which pairs passion with brilliance. If you refuse to settle for a career that offers anything less, we want to meet you!

Additional requirements include:

- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student

- Majoring in computer science, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, and related fields

- Proficient in an object-oriented programming language (C++ and Python preferred)

- A working knowledge of Linux/Unix

- Past industry experience (a plus)

- Experience as a Teaching Assistant and/or participation in relevant Olympiads (a plus)

- Familiarity with machine learning, data analysis, market research and data modeling (a plus)

- Brilliant problem-solving abilities

- A passion for new technologies and ideas

- The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

- Strong communication skills

- Financial experience is not required but interest in financial markets is a plus.