Junior Quantitative Developer

About Us:
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated, quick-learning Junior Quantitative Developer for a well-established and growing trading desk in our Toronto office. This individual will be involved in the development of our cutting-edge, quantitative trading platform which competes in the most competitive markets in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Work side by side with senior Portfolio Manager and experienced Software Developers on a trading desk
• Learn proprietary methodologies, signal generation, and trading systems that support an established algorithmic trading business
• Improve and extend the core trading models, enhancing existing trading signals and identifying and pursuing new opportunities
• Design, develop and test applications, working with the trading team to implement automated trading strategies and execution algorithms
• Run quantitative models live on our high-performance trading infrastructure, and analyze their daily performance to maintain ongoing profitability
• Write high-performing, well-tested Python code that meets coding standards and business requirements
• Review and enhance existing trading and analytical infrastructure
• Develop new functionality and software to support trading

Requirements:

• Bachelors’ Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Engineering
• 1-3 years of experience in a financial services quantitative development role
• Have a strong understanding of Python, SQL, C++ 11/14/17
• Have a strong understanding of Financial Derivatives (Options, Futures, Swaps, Forwards)
• Have a strong understanding of software development principles (OO design, TDD, etc.)
• Willingness to work market hours

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