Quantitative Developer | Trading team
Jump Trading2 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the team’s proprietary end-to-end machine learning pipeline, including features, algorithms, model design, tools, and infrastructure.
- Develop tools for market microstructure research and collaborate with quantitative researchers to generate and analyze features.
- Design a portfolio optimization system supporting comprehensive portfolio management strategies.
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain research infrastructure, production trading systems, data pipelines, and system upgrades.
- Automate and improve deployment, configuration, and validation processes while troubleshooting production issues and supporting end users.
- Improve production-system scalability and maintain reliable operation of the trading environment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of solving challenging problems through coding with measurable metrics and impact in industry and/or academia.
- Strong software development skills in Python and/or C++.
- Ability to reason through quantitative problems and communicate effectively with quantitative researchers.
- Over 2 years of experience with industrial-grade codebases using compiled languages such as C++ is advantageous.
- Familiarity with high-performance computing and distributed large-scale model training is a plus.
- Strong learning ability, intellectual curiosity, versatility, originality, and a pragmatic outlook.
- Reliable and predictable availability to support smooth production-system operations.
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About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a privately held quantitative and high-frequency trading firm that designs low-latency systems and models to trade global markets across asset classes, including equities, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. It trades its own capital rather than selling software or services, and operates from Chicago with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia; the firm was founded in 1999. Affiliates include Jump Crypto for digital assets and the venture arm Jump Capital.