Copy of Hedge Fund - Trading System Developer / Execution Trader
Excellent opportunity to move from a front office IT role to a Trader. |
-First six months will be spent assisting in the development of the trading platform. -After the first 6 months, individual will start learning how to execute orders – taking orders from a fund manager and executing them with a combination of fixed instructions and discretion. -Develop trading algorithms – after 12-18mths of execution trading, contribution to in-house algorithm development will be required. -Contribution to long term IT strategy of the trading desk -Planning and development of systems to improve operational efficiency -Expect to spend 50% of the time trading and 50% of the time developing trading system to improve the way you trade -Hands on Windows/Linux/Unix, System calls/third party API, multithreading, network programming, relational database programming -Experience in debugging and trouble shooting -Experience in large scale projects in JAVA -Quant experience is a must -Flexible on which programming language to use -Strong academic background -Fluent English with good communication skills; Chinese, Japanese or Korean language skills a plus -(Optional) PERL, C++, shell script, C#, Python, VBScript, VB, MsSQL. |