Quant Trading Lead Engineer (VP)

FTE | NYC | Hybrid (3/2, must be onsite M or F weekly)

Target Base Salary: $200-250k

Target Discretionary Bonus: 25-35% of Base

As a Lead Engineer in our Quantitative Fixed Income Engineering team, you will partner with the Quant Trading team to deliver quantitatively led pricing and trading solutions for the Rates and Credit Businesses.

What You’ll Do

1. Lead development of new features in both trading strategies and the overall trading stack
2. Identify, and resolve, stability issues and performance bottlenecks
3. Participate fully in code reviews as both author and reviewer
4. Work closely with engineering peers both locally and in other regions to deliver successful solutions

How You’ll Lead

1. Form a successful partnership with desk quants/traders on a day-to-day basis to deliver valuable changes to your trading strategies
2. Work closely with the core platform engineering team to leverage, and improve upon, common solutions

Skills You’ll Need

1. Strong skills with Java
2. Consistent experience in developing high performance and/or low latency applications
3. Proficiency in developing e-trading systems
4. Familiarity with Python3 and KDB is beneficial

Skills That Will Help You Excel

1. Experience of modern patterns for continuous delivery of software
2. A proven track record of delivering excellent technical solutions into production
3. Able to deliver complex features independently and collaboratively as necessary
4. A solid grounding in the principals of computer engineering, preferably backed by a technical degree