Junior Fixed Income Relative Value Trader

DV Trading•Chicago, IL

5h•Onsite

About The Position

DV is looking for a full-time right hand to the head of a highly profitable fixed-income relative-value trading desk. The team combines rigorous market analysis, sophisticated technology, and disciplined risk-taking to identify and capture opportunities across global fixed-income markets. We operate like an entrepreneurial trading business, not a bureaucracy. Decisions are made quickly. Good ideas are tested aggressively. Everyone is expected to take ownership, solve problems, and do whatever is necessary to get the job done. The learning curve will be steep, the standards will be unforgiving, and the hours will be driven by the markets and the work-not by the clock. For the right person, the upside is exceptional: direct exposure to portfolio construction, trade execution, quantitative research, technology development, and risk management from day one.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering, or another rigorous quantitative discipline.
Strong quantitative reasoning and the ability to think clearly under pressure.
Genuine interest in markets, trading, technology, and risk.
The ability to learn unfamiliar concepts rapidly and turn them into useful work.
Exceptional attention to detail. Small mistakes matter in trading.
Strong ownership instincts. You identify problems and solve them without waiting to be managed.
The resilience to handle direct feedback, demanding standards, and periods of intense work.
The willingness and ability to work full-time from our Northfield, Illinois office for at least the first 18 months.

Nice To Haves

Direct fixed-income experience or experience on a trading desk is valuable but not required if you can demonstrate unusual ability, intellectual curiosity, and drive.

Responsibilities

Work directly with the head of the trading desk on live positions, research, execution, and risk management.
Monitor fixed-income markets, relative-value relationships, portfolio exposures, and trading opportunities.
Build and improve analytical tools, trading systems, data pipelines, dashboards, and automated workflows.
Research new strategies and test ideas using market data and quantitative methods.
Investigate pricing discrepancies and explain what is driving changes in markets and portfolio performance.
Execute accurately under pressure and follow through relentlessly.
Take responsibility for operational details that cannot be allowed to fail.
Learn the desk’s investment process from the inside and gradually assume greater trading and risk-taking responsibility.