Crypto HFT Trader (Remote) in UNITED KINGDOM

Our client is a global top market share high-frequency proprietary trading firm trading across global equities, futures, FX and crypto.

The firm is actively looking for to experienced Crypto Quant Traders to develop and deploy algorithmic trading strategies based on patterns in market behaviour.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and deploying trading algorithms
• Exploring trading ideas by analysing market data, market micro-structure and alternate data for patterns
• Feature engineering
• Creating machine learning models
• Backtesting trading strategies, comparing backtest results with live trading
• Contributing to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading
• Developing, augmenting, and calibrating exchange simulators

Qualifications

• A Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree from a top-tier university in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or equivalent STEM degree
• Experience in high-frequency trading or quantitative trading
• Proficiency in back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques (auto-regression, auto-correlation, and Principal Component Analysis)
• Solid data-mining and analysis skills, including experience dealing with a large amount of data/tick data
• Familiarity with signal generation and statistical models
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++
• Experince in HFT with a proven track record is a strong plus
• Math Olympiads / programming competitions (ICPC, Codeforces) / Kaggle Master+ or similar achievements is a Plus

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Remote work from anywhere in the world or from office
• Competitive salary and negotiable pnl cut or discretionary bonuses
• Others on open discussion