Vacancy detail

HFT Quant Trader - Commodity Futures

€150,000-200,000 EUR

+ Performance based bonus

Onsite WORKING

Location: Paris, Île-de-France – France Type: Permanent

HFT Quant Trader – Paris

My client is a leading systematic trading firm which is expanding a new commodities market making team with a Quantitative Trader. This firm can offer strong base salaries and performance-based bonuses, in addition to pension, insurance, and medical benefits. This is an opportunity for a Quant Researcher/Trader from an electronic trading background to join an exciting new business where they will research and manage trading algorithms at low-latency.

The Role:

  • Research and manage short-term/HFT market taking strategies across commodity futures markets, particularly Energy futures.
  • Cover microstructure analysis, pricing, signal generation, and hedging strategy responsibilities.
  • Manage other trading operations, such as tweaking/optimising trading systems and managing risk.
  • Design and backtest quantitative trading algorithms.
  • Implement, optimize and improve strategies in live trading.

Requirements:

  • 2+ years experience as an Electronic Trading quant at a trading firm or bank.
  • Advanced programming skills in Python and experience with C++ or Java.
  • A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD level degree from a top university in a numerical field of study such as engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics etc. 
  • Ability to work in a team with colleagues in other regions.

Reference: GHA/NRG/NP01

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