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Quantitative Developer | Trading team

Jump Trading
🇭🇰Hong KongSeniorFull-timePosted August 14, 2024

About the Role

Jump Trading Group is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join their expanding global equity stat arb business in Hong Kong, focusing on developing mixed-frequency (low/mid) strategies. You will collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and engineers to architect, build, and maintain research infrastructure and production systems. Key responsibilities include creating and improving research tools, developing trading infrastructure, enhancing system scalability, maintaining production environments, and developing software to automate deployment and configuration. As part of a new, cutting-edge team, you'll tackle open-ended problems while working in a collaborative environment with significant professional growth opportunities.

Requirements

  • 5+ year track record of solving challenging problems through coding with real metrics & impact in industry and/or academia.
  • Passion for building efficient, modular software to tackle challenging problems.
  • Strong learning ability, intellectual curiosity, versatility, and originality combined with a pragmatic outlook.
  • Ability to reason through quantitative problems and communicate effectively with quantitative researchers.
  • Reliable and predictable availability to ensure smooth operations of production systems.
  • Over two years of experience working with industrial grade codebases using compiled languages such as C++ is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) and distributed large-scale model training is a plus.