Statistical Arbitrage Desk Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Expert C/C++ programming skills and strong Matlab or R/S-plus experience preferred.
- Experience in equity statistical arbitrage or quantitative strategy development preferred. Experience with FX, Fixed Income, or commodities also appreciated.
- Candidate looking to be involved in the alpha generation process from front to back.
Candidate will work directly with a Senior Portfolio Manager.
- Develop new medium and high frequency equity trading signals based on cutting edge financial theory and novel data sources.
- Continue to build out a back-testing and modeling platform.
- Implement and deploy alpha and execution strategies.
- Writing code to monitor data integrity and clean data when necessary.
- Monitoring OMS to ensure that risk limits are being obeyed, execution algos are operating properly, etc.

Requirements:
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or another quantitative discipline.

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