Quantitative Jobs in Web3

About Us:Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV Group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.   Overview: We are seeking a highly motivated, quick-learning Quantitative Trading Developer for a well-established and growing trading desk. This individual will be involved in the development of our cutting-edge, quantitative trading platform which competes in the most competitive markets in the world working directly with the PM and with other developers. In this role they will take on trading responsibilities over time and should have a good trading and mathematical aptitude. The ideal candidate will have some experience at trading firms in a development related role (e.g developer, systems engineer, quant developer, quant trader) and be strong at C++ and scientific languages. Responsibilities:

Work directly with trading desks on new feature requests, pricing, trade analysis, various metrics, and Ad-hoc requests. Leverage quant libraries for their work. Work on cross-functional teams across trading, quant, and development to troubleshoot and solve complex problems.  Alpha generation, feature generation, working with large data sets, state space filters and related models, and identifying relevant data to use. Options volatility modeling and pricing, implementation of new models. Building high-performance components for simulation and live trading.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering. Advanced degree an asset. Strong understanding of C++ and scientific computing languages. Prior experience working at an options trading firm or desk preferred. Quantitative development experience with exchanges preferred. Solid understanding of options, options volatility modeling, pricing, stochastic calculus experience preferred. Strong knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, OOP, threading, multiprocessing, etc. Experience working with distributed systems and large data sets. Strong communication skills in verbal and written English.

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