Company: Yardley Search Group
Job Category: IT/Software Development
Job Title: Trading Data Engineer
Location: New York, NY 10020
URL: http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_vz39f
Job Description
Our client is an industry leader in the area of high-frequency trading and execution optimization. Their product is acknowledged by many institutional clients to be the best in its class. Building on this foundation, they are expanding aggressively, both in their main software offerings and into new areas of quantitative trading.
The Data Engineer will take ownership of the client’s expanding high frequency data plant. You will participate in the design and implementation of new execution strategies and services, and the expansion of the platform into new markets and asset classes. The group is looking for talented individuals with superior credentials in the development and support of mission-critical realtime systems to join their growing team. Successful candidates will participate in the group’s ongoing efforts to implement cutting edge technology for advanced algorithmic trading applications. You will work closely with the quant and development teams, and be involved in all product stages from preliminary research to analyzing and monitoring production trading systems.
Requirements:
* Specific expertise in the storage, management, quality assurance and access of high frequency equity tick data and associated asset data across multiple markets and countries.
* In depth knowledge of modern databases and tools for extracting and transforming data from multiple sources. (Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Perl, etc.)
* Knowledge of a standard OO language (Java preferred, C++ or C# also okay)
* Be comfortable with the Unix/Linux command line and toolset.
* Be very smart, curious and interested in trading and finance
* Be comfortable with quantitative concepts, ideally with some training in mathematics or the hard sciences
* Knowledge of specialized financial tick data products such as VhaYu Velocity, Liberator, LightStreamer or Kx Kdb would be EXTREMELY DESIRABLE.
The compensation for this opportunity will be commensurate with the experience level of qualified candidates. For senior candidates the base could approach or potentially exceed the $150K range to attract stars, with an additional bonus potentially taking the overall comp package into the $250K range. Kindly note that these figures are somewhat flexible for proven performers with specific high-frequency Trading System experience.
This group has become firmly established as one of the most technologically and quantitatively sophisticated on Wall Street. Successful candidates will enjoy a fast-paced environment, stimulating technical challenges and generous financial rewards, along with excellent stability and significant growth opportunities.