Quant Trader
$400,000–$700,000 year
On-site · Miami, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Quant Trader role focused on building and improving systematic options trading strategies. Responsibilities include engineering and refining automated liquidity-provision, risk pricing, execution quality, and alpha-position entry/management; tuning trading parameters in response to large market movements; collaborating with latency engineers, researchers, reliability engineers, and platform developers; developing tooling and controls for robust operations; and defining risk-control safeguards with ownership over trading operations. Strong emphasis on statistics, market microstructure, handling large data sets, and optimizing engagement and returns. Requires a degree from a top university (STEM preferred) and 3+ years of experience; proficiency with common programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C++, KDB) is valued. Location: Miami on-site five days a week; relocation is fully covered.
Required Qualifications
- Degree from a top university, ideally in a STEM field
- At least 3 years of experience
- Experience building and operating complex trading strategies in a Systematic Options Trading environment
- Familiarity with programming languages (Python, Java, C++, KDB, etc.)
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