Quantitative Developer - Java - Algorithmic Trading - High Frequency Trading

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Quantitative Developer – Java – Algorithmic Trading - High Frequency Trading

Excellent opportunity opens for an experienced Quantitative Developer to join a team of experienced quants and algorithmic developers at in a leading High-Frequency Trading Firm’s London office.

The successful candidate will be involved in a variety of tasks ranging from the analysis of market microstructure and its effects on algorithmic trading to understanding improvement to be made and overseeing the change and roll out of those improvements. This would include making business focused strategy logic changes in our Java code and working with other dev, testing and support teams to roll these changes out to clients . This is a high-visibility role and would suit a quantitative developer with a prior knowledge of equity trading and European market microstructure.

• Perform research on trading outcomes to measure contextual efficacy of various trading strategies.
• Understand and evaluate contribution of various trading tactics to strategic performance outcomes.

Design models to more effectively use trading tactics to achieve strategic performance and work closely with engineering team to implement th...