Quantitative Technologist (Full-Time - C++ Developer)

Radix Trading University Job Board•Chicago, IL

About The Position

As a Quantitative Technologist, your goal is to enhance live trading systems, research infrastructure, and alpha generation through technology innovation. We leverage cutting-edge software and hardware (mostly with modern C++) to push production level code daily and evolve fully-automated strategies, alpha generation processes, live trading systems, and machine learning research and simulation infrastructure used to analyze petabytes of data. We provide starter projects that we know will add value to the firm, while encouraging exploration and independent projects to improve inefficiencies, propose iterations, and own significant processes and tools within your first few months. COMPENSATION – Competitive salary, plus quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution towards success of others and the firm.

Requirements

Persistent Drive to Improve
Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking
Team Mindset
Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness
Orientation for Making Money
Low-level computer languages like C or C++; awareness of strength in particular language and ability to solve more complex problems due to understanding nuances of the language
Understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexities, and numerical algorithms
Systems Architecture - knowledge and experience with distributed systems and communication
Software Architecture - knowledge and experience working with a large code base
Development Processes - experience delivering and deploying software in production environments