Quantitative Developer
at Millennium
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**Job Summary:** We seek an experienced **Quantitative Developer** to drive our Central Liquidity Strategies team's APAC-led initiative. This role involves intensive development using q/kdb+ and Python, designing high-performance quant models, and optimizing large streaming data. You'll collaborate with researchers, traders, and other teams to build stand-alone applications and APIs, while managing complex equity flows in challenging markets. Successful candidates bring 2-10 years of development experience in a financial setting.
We are searching for a Quantitative Developer to join our Central Liquidity Strategies team. This role requires intensive development across a range of languages and systems with a particular focus on implementation of new high performance quant models. The role will be at the forefront of a new APAC-led initiative spanning both execution and financing space.
The Central Liquidity Strategies team operates within Core and handles analysis, optimization, routing, internalization, and more, for a large portion of our order flow. This seat will put you in touch with some of the industry’s largest equity flows in the most challenging markets.
Responsibilities
- Developing across a wide breadth of applications; primary languages q/kdb+, Python
- Design and optimization of computationally intensive quantitative models with a particular focus on large streaming data
- Developing stand-alone applications, working with related teams’ codebases, as well as collaboration with other teams for design specification, e.g. required APIs
- Communicate all ideas, questions, and conclusions concisely and effectively
- Collaborate closely with researchers and traders
Required skills/experience:
- 2-10 years of experience in related financial institutions in a development-intensive role
- Programming experience across both compiled and interpreted languages
- Scientific education, preferably degree(s) in statistics, mathematics, physics, or computer science
- Unix proficiency essential
- Familiarity with databases and experience with q/kdb+ extremely helpful but not required
- Experience with equity electronic trading (markets, systems, mechanics) helpful, but not necessary
- First-rate communication skills, written and verbal
- Detail oriented; demonstrates thoroughness and strong ownership of work
- Quick learner and able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency
- Ability to work independently and thoughtfully
- Flexible teammate, with a willingness to interact and collaborate with other teams
