Quantitative Research Engineer

Theta Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 2021, seeks a Quant Research Engineer to join our R&D team.

The R&D and Quant Research team is responsible for creating trading strategies and will be backtested and deployed in production.

Responsibilities

1. The candidate will contribute to developing the trading strategies :

2. Understand of Deep Neural Net concepts

3. Sequence Modeling - Recurrent and Recursive nets

4. Monte Carlo simulation and other back-testing models.

Working knowledge of GAN and other generative networks

Qualifications : The candidate will have relevant experience or will be ready to rapidly learn:

1. A Masters or PhD in Maths from a top-tier university

2. A strong background in mathematics and statistics

3. Solid data-mining and analysis skills, including experience dealing with a large amount of data/tick data

4. Familiarity with signal generation and statistical models

Benefits

Theta continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Theta offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Financial Firm.

Theta is meritocracy driven and candid culture. No politics

Theta Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 2021, seeks a Software Engineer - Python to join our engineering team.

The Engineering team is responsible for High-Frequency trading platform used by our traders.

Responsibilities The candidate will contribute to developing and maintaining software for:

1. Automation of reliable market data recording and feeding into the back-testing platform

2. Design and Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power applications

3. Comprehensive modeling and indexing of recorded data.

4. Data characterization, normalization, quality checking and metadata generation.

5. Implementation of storage retention and life cycle policies.

6. Optimization of storage formats, organization and access in HPC and public cloud environments.

Qualifications : The candidate will have relevant experience or will be ready to rapidly learn:

1. Python scripting and Bash scripting and application development.

2. Modern software development practices.

3. Excellent understanding of RESTful APIs and micro-services is a plus.

4. Relational database design, performance optimization, and usage patterns.

5. Financial industry concepts.

6. Data intensive applications and grid computing.

7. Good analytical and problem solving skills.

Benefits :

Theta continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Theta offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Financial Firm.

Theta is meritocracy driven and candid culture. No politics