Sr. Quantitative Research Analyst - (US-CT-Rowayton)

Sr. Quantitative Research Analyst - (US-CT-Rowayton)

Compensation: $150K - $170K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: GSSJA2

Research and develop ways to improve current execution strategies and create new quantitative execution algorithms to improve the performance of existing and new trading systems. Develop and implement software used in the internal high-frequency trading engine. Monitor and maintain existing production execution applications 

Key Responsibilities: 
• Design and implement software for high-frequency trading engine using primarily C++ programming language. 
• Research and develop new smart execution strategies for multiple security types, ideally offering significant reduction in trading costs by reducing market impact and slippage. 
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of production processing for high-frequency trading infrastructure. 
• Maintain statistical and data monitoring processes that run on a 24/7 cycle. 
• Post-trade analytics -- Collect, analyze, and report on execution and trading system performance. Make recommendations for changes that will improve performance and/or reduce risk. 
Required Skills 
• Background in the asset management industry with direct exposure to high-frequency trading systems platform development or algorithmic trading. (equities, futures, or cash-FX) 
• Strong C++, STL , shell scripting, multithreaded programming. 
• Experience with data analysis and mathematical modeling tools such as Matlab or R. 
• Thorough understanding of market microstructure for exchange based instruments or multi-venue markets such as cash FX. 
• Exposure to market data handling and analysis as well as in-memory database techniques. 


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