Epoch Capital
In office: Sydney, New York, London
A bit about the team…
The Mid Frequency Trading Team is a fully automated trading team, trading multiple products across global markets. The team's framework facilitates live trading and historical backtesting and includes the data processing pipelines and research tools necessary for new alpha research. The codebase is predominantly in Python leveraging a number of industry standard libraries for data handling.
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What the role is about...
This is an opportunity for an experienced Quant Developer to join a team where ideas are shared openly between software engineers, quantitative traders and researchers. Your contribution will make a big difference to the future success of the team. As such, we expect people to be willing to contribute in areas beyond their immediate responsibilities.
Successful candidates must also have a pragmatic approach to problem solving, and be willing to identify and focus on the highest-opportunity tasks. They should also have solid technical skills, and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. It is also essential that the successful candidate is willing to spend time sharing knowledge with other team members, as well as learning from them, in order to contribute to the team’s collaborative and open culture.
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What your main responsibilities will be...
Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines
Work with Quantitative Researchers to productionize and refine trading models
Build post-trade analysis tooling to observe performance of trading signals
Support and maintenance of the existing systems and infrastructure
Applying modern devops paradigms to enhance operational capabilities
Contributing to the continuous refinement of the desk’s system
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To be successful in this role, these are the essential experiences you need…
3+ years development experience in a trading environment
Experience supporting researchers to develop signals and strategies
Expert proficiency level in python
Experience using pandas & numpy
Experience with real time Linux systems
Good design skills
Strong understanding of data structures
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To fit into the culture of our team, you should be strong in the following areas…
Great interpersonal and communication skills
Team focussed with a passion for building strong and effective relationships
Attention to detail
Proactive approach and willingness to take ownership of problems
Curious mindset with the continuous drive to improve yourself and those around you
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If you had any of these skills, it would be an added bonus…
B.Sc. in mathematics are other mathematical discipline
Experience generating new signals/alpha
Experience working with docker, AWS, Alerta, Airflow, Influx DB and Grafana
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