Our client is a leading intraday trading firm in the quant futures space. The group is now looking to expand into crypto and looking for a senior quant crypto trader to lead the rollout from the front, implementing strategies and building a team to join the platform whilst leveraging the firm’s proprietary infrastructure. This opportunity will enable the right candidate to have ownership and play a key role in the build out of this new initiative as well as offering competitive upside with a Pnl % cut.
Role:
- Designing, implementing, and deploying uncorrelated intraday trading algorithms focused on crypto markets
- Creating tools for data analysis of patterns
- Researching and developing new signals/ trade ideas
- Managing portfolio construction and risk
- Work alongside quant and development support in roll out of trading strategy and/or infra
Requirements:
- 5 years+ experience in quant/ systematic trading firm
- Multi-year track record managing crypto investment portfolio
- A MSc/PhD from a top-tier university
- A strong background in physics, mathematics and statistics, with good knowledge of statistical models and signal generation
- Proficiency in back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques
- Data-mining skills paired up with data analysis skills. Previous experience operating with a large amount of tick/data would be beneficial
- Strong programming skills in Python or C++
- CQF preferred