Associate Member of Trading Staff

Overview

In this role you rotate through credit, equity, forex, and derivatives desks to build expertise in market microstructure and trading operations. You will contribute to analytics and automation that scale the firm’s systematic trading programs while collaborating with research and trading teams. Under mentorship from senior traders, you’ll interface with brokers, monitor execution, and help prevent outages. This is a hands-on position at the intersection of finance and technology with meaningful impact on real-world trading outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• highly competitive compensation
• benefits packages
• technology talks by our experts
• daily catered lunches
• modern office
• hybrid work arrangement

Responsibilities

• Monitor high-volume execution algorithms and portfolio risk
• Track real-time market developments
• Interface with external brokers and trading counterparties
• Contribute to the codebase underlying automated trading operations
• Build processes and technology to prevent errors or outages while increasing team capacity
• Provide insight and expertise to the research and development staff
• Work global market hours for a portion of every year on a rotational basis

Key requirements

• passion for markets
• Proficiency in a programming language like Python or R
• Experience using a Unix-like OS
• Academic or practical familiarity with statistics
• A skillset in data analysis and visualization
• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or quantitative discipline
• Attention to detail and clarity of thought

• attention to detail
• clear thinking
• analytical mindset
• Python
• R
• Unix/Linux

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