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SalaryTechnology is core to the success of our business. At SIG We have more than 800 technologists building our systems from the ground up. We are on the leading edge of low-latency and high-performance trading and our technology drives every aspect of our business. Our developers and engineers work together to build solutions using the newest and fastest technology available. We work in a complex, distributed environment where we continually strive to improve systems capacity, increase speed, ensure stability and mitigate risk in every system.
What we're looking for
As a Quantitative Developer you will be closely working with traders, quant analysts, and trading strategy developers to:
- Develop, maintain and deploy analytical tools (Python) that will directly influence trading strategies.
- Source, cleanse, develop and maintain data pipelines as required the trading teams.
- Performance-tune existing applications and processes, improve existing codebases and data flows to allow for efficient processing of large data sets.
- Experience with the Python data science stack: NumPy, Pandas etc.
- Experience with numeric data storage methodologies, e.g., hdf5
- Experience with processing of large and varied data sets
- Experience of working in a Linux environment
- Strong knowledge in computer networking, e.g., UDP, multicasting
- Ability to understand financial models and mathematical algorithms.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with traders, quantitative analysts, and other software developers.
- Experience or interest in areas such as capital markets, probability, game theory and the application of IT solutions to these areas is a plus.
