Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.  We are looking for a Quant Developer to join one of our established trading teams.  

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and design of an internal Cross-Asset risk system, external Cross-Asset databases and electronic execution platforms (upgrading systems, ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance)
• Design and develop rapid tools in Python that will be crucial for analysis, research, automated trading, and risk management purposes.
• Develop pricing models for derivative instruments.
• Maintain and develop a back-testing tool for complex trading strategies.
• Develop predictive tools and market screeners for the different members of the team.
• Communicate on a daily basis with team managers and with different professional profiles.
• Commitment to safeguarding team information and adhering to business sensitivity

Qualifications:

• Master degree or PhD in Computer Science or Applied Mathematics or Physics. Mathematics level bachelor equivalent.
• Over 2 years of quantitative development experience or equivalent experience
  • Extensive experience writing production code (design, code, and debug applications), and have experience managing the software development life cycle
  • Experience in rapid tactical development
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Knowledge of C, C#, C++
  • Proficiency with SQL and Linux
  • Familiarity with Parallelism and distributed computing
  • Experience with either supervised, unsupervised, reinforced or deep learning preferred
• High attention to detail with great critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and ability to tackle complex design problems systematically and methodically
• Ability to prioritize tasks appropriately and communicate effectively with proper escalation of issues, risks, and concerns
• Meticulous data management skills.
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Adept at quickly mastering new technologies and systems, able to pick up new concepts/tasks/projects quickly and comfortable seeking out additional information or assistance when necessary