Quantitative Trader
Virtu Financialabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies.
- Learn the intricacies of trade flow processes during an intensive mentorship.
- Integrate into strategy deployment and operation.
- Collaborate with software engineers to enhance trading strategies.
- Become an expert in trading technology and market microstructure.
Requirements
- Excellent academic background, preferably in hard sciences.
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude.
- Programming experience is required (Python, SQL, Java, or C++ are a plus).
- Ability to communicate information precisely and with agility.
- Highly motivated and tenacious individual with initiative.
- Team player capable of working towards collective goals.
- Prior experience with trading, strategy games, or poker is helpful but not required.
- No finance background is necessary.