Trading Strategy Developer Intern

Anti Capital • New York, NY

1d • $70,000 - $90,000

About The Position

Anti Capital is a 25-person proprietary trading firm operating in both cryptocurrency and traditional equity markets. With offices in New York and Taiwan, we move fast, think independently, and push the boundaries of market-making. As an early member of the Nexus team, you’ll help build and refine our trading infrastructure end-to-end. You’ll work directly with our Portfolio Manager to: Harden and extend our market-making engine Refine and refactor our backtesting framework Manage and maintain exchange connections Collaborate on strategy design and alpha-signal integration Monitor live strategy performance and respond to incidents This is not a cookie-cutter internship. You must be highly self-driven, intellectually curious, and comfortable making architectural and tactical decisions with minimal hand-holding.

Requirements

• Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar.
• Solid programming skills: Rust is a must; Python or TypeScript experience a plus.
• Fundamental understanding of financial markets and trading concepts.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and system-design instincts.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Proven ability to work independently and learn on the fly.

Nice To Haves

• Coursework or projects in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, or statistical modeling.
• Prior internship or research experience at a trading firm, fintech, or related setting.
• Deep comfort with Linux, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and telemetry/alerting tools.
• Strong math background (probability, statistics, linear algebra).

Responsibilities

• System Robustness: Identify and fix bottlenecks in our quoting and execution pipelines.
• Backtester Maintenance: Rewrite, optimize, and document core backtesting modules for speed and accuracy.
• Exchange Connectivity: Build and maintain stable REST/MS & WebSocket clients to various venues.
• Strategy Development Support: Prototype new strategies or enhancements around existing alpha signals.
• Production Monitoring: Implement and operate health checks, alerts, and automatic/reactionary fixes for live strategies.

Benefits

• Opportunity to convert to a full-time, salaried role upon successful internship completion
• Hands-on access to production trading systems and senior quantitative engineers
• Collaborative, flat-structured team with global reach

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees