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Systematic Trader

Citadel Securities
🇺🇸New York🇮🇪Dublin🇮🇳Gurugram🇭🇰Hong Kong🇬🇧London🇸🇬SingaporeMediorFull-time$150k–$325kPosted September 22, 2026

About the Role

Join a global team of experts responsible for managing the day-to-day trading of Citadel Securities' quantitative systematic trading strategies. You will make real-time decisions to manage risk, respond to changing market conditions, react to patterns observed in trading behaviors, and act on the broad set of alerts generated by our leading monitoring platform. You will partner with the firm's strategy developers and technologists to deliver a best-in-class trading platform that directly unlocks business opportunities and improves the robustness of our businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the daily operation of our systematic trading platform, partnering with developers, researchers, and technology teams
  • Develop a deep understanding of market microstructure, products, regulations, and our trading platform to facilitate business growth (new regions/venues/products, defining new technology requirements, and deployment of new strategies)
  • Design and drive the continual improvement of our world-class trading platform
  • Monitor markets and strategy performance metrics identifying trends that inform actions
  • Understand and navigate macro event risks by constructing and executing trading playbooks
  • Own risk management protections and have authority over trading activities
  • Make real-time decisions to manage risk, respond to changing market conditions, react to patterns observed in trading behaviors, and act on the broad set of alerts generated by our leading monitoring platform

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM, Finance, Economics, or Business program from a top institution
  • Excellent problem-solving and strategic decision-making ability
  • Able to keep the big picture in mind, making informed and defensible decisions in a fast-paced trading environment
  • Prior experience in electronic trading
  • Detail-oriented
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrated self-starter with the drive and can-do attitude to learn new things and push through change to deliver results
  • Experience with Linux
  • Proficiency in Python

What You'll Get

  • $150k–$325k base salary
  • Discretionary incentive compensation program
  • Medical insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Tax-free savings plans
  • Access to other healthcare programs