What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Engineer position at Algo Capital Group?
Research Engineer:
A global HFT firm is looking for an experienced Research Engineer who is a driven and creative. They are looking for somebody who enjoys working alongside quantitative researchers and traders. This person would be a key contributor to the company's growing trading capabilities in the low latency space.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with senior researchers, traders and technologists to research new ideas, tackle complex problems, and deliver appropriate solutions
- Design, develop, support, and maintain large portions of research and trading infrastructure
- Establish vision and technical direction for major initiatives
- Contribute to the stack and our pricing, research and trading models from ideation through to implementation
- Ensure new and existing programs adhere to our coding, architectural, and operational standards
- Develop a deep understanding of trading and exchanges
- Engineer and refine new scientific approaches alongside the deployment of our research platforms and technologies.
- Cross technological domains to consider and challenge all dimensions of the problem at hand without fear of artificial silos of information and ownership.
What you’ll need:
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Experience in statistical modelling, mathematics or related domains
- An ability to generate research ideas and implement and execute solutions to represent them
- Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism
- A desire to continuously improve in a rapidly evolving environment
- A readiness to set technical direction, promote engineering principles, and do the right thing
- Experience with either C, C , Python, Linux is preferred
- Experience with GPUs, FPGAs is great.
If you want to enter a flat and lean environment where engineers can see the market react in real time to innovations, then apply now.