Quantitative Developer

Global Investment firm

J Harlan Group is currently conducting a search for a Quantitative Developer at a prominent NYC Global Investment Management organization.

if you are looking for challenging work experiences and the ability to learn in a collaborative culture, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

An exciting opportunity to build scalable and creative financial engineering capabilities that support the investment process and help manage risk & capital.

The Quant Dev will work closely with the trading desk, portfolio managers and risk managers to ensure they have the data and tools needed to make investment decisions and build new tools to unlock opportunities and automate the execution of trade ideas. Building scalable, creative solutions to problems involving their investment process is their mandate. The firm views Quantitative Technology as a distinct competitive advantage - enabling a host of opportunities that differentiate them from their competitors.

Technology is integral to virtually everything the firm does, which is why they seek exceptional software developers with a range of quantitative and programming abilities. Members of their technical staff collaborate on challenging problems that directly impact the firm’s continued success, utilizing their strong analytical, mathematical, and software design skills as well as some of the most advanced computing resources in the world.

Principal Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities may include formulating statistical models for their computerized trading strategies, developing distributed systems to analyze and react to incoming data in real time, and creating tools for advanced mathematical modeling.

The ideal candidate would have a background including (We welcome outstanding candidates at all experience levels):

• Successful quant developer candidates have traditionally been exceptionally talented students at the top of their respective Computer Science, engineering, statistics, math, physics, financial engineering programs; a considerable number have also competed successfully in the United States and International Math Olympiads/Competitions.
• An Advance degree in Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science - Successful quant developers have traditionally been the top students in their programs and have extensive software development experience.
• Established track record developing software and applications, including experience in quantitative/modeling environments (e.g. Matlab, Splus, R, Python) and SQL databases
• An individual who is a rock star in at least one of the following areas, Computer Science, Mathematics or Finance
• Knowledge and experience in one or more memory managed languages required such as; C#, Java, Python, F#, Scala, Haskel, ADA, Smalltalk, Prologue, etc., including C++.
• Ability to craft creative and practical solutions to problems and express those solutions in code.
• Candidates should be innovative and analytical thinkers with strong communication skills, and they should demonstrate proficiency with the numerical and statistical tools needed to develop robust signals from market data.
• Ability to work in an open collaborative and highly charged investment environment.
• Must be an entrepreneurial, self-motivated, open-minded, conceptual, intelligent, bright individual who is intellectually honest & open to debate with excellent synthesis abilities.
• Strong desire to contribute and build a business – not just solve novel problems.

Ability to work with a wide range of investment professionals to develop and implement highly quantitative investment related technologies in support of a dynamically growing global investment platform

An individual who loves solving deep and complex technical and business problems and wants to have an outsized impact with the products they build and deliver. An individual with a passion for quantitative technology, high level of intellectual curiosity, a commitment to excellence and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class technologies.

About the Client:

The firm is a prominent multinational investment management firm. The company manages a variety of investment funds that make extensive use of quantitative methods and proprietary computational technology to support fundamental research in the management of its investments.

They have a relentlessly focuses on innovation and integration: innovation in new products, markets and businesses as well as new tools, models and technology management and performance structures; integration of fundamental research, quantitative strategies and technical analysis, all supported by an intensive focus on operational excellence and comprehensive risk management.

The talent and dedication of their people is critical to their success. They offer an opportunity for developing one’s professional career while working with individuals trained in a variety of disciplines in a collegial and dynamic environment. They offer a broad range of competitive benefits on a global basis.

They seek candidates who are high-energy self-starters who want to join an investment management firm on the leading edge of the global markets. The management team needs individuals of the highest professional caliber who are leaders, problem solvers, analytic, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial. Everyone at the firm works side-by-side with the firm’s senior management in a highly collaborative and charged environment.

Successful candidates are:

• Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer
• Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis
• Able to demonstrate sound business judgment
• Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the “big picture” of business needs
• Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise
  

The firm’s employees maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. The firm has earned a reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and transparency in a competitive industry. They believe that these standards are the foundation for superior investment performance and are critical to delivering performance to clients

Posted On: Tuesday, April 6, 2021