What are the responsibilities and job description for the Futures Trader position at Fintal Partners?
Our client is looking for Quantitative Researchers and Traders to join its HFT futures trading team, building and running fully automated strategies in highly competitive, low-latency markets.
This role is hands-on and performance-driven, with direct ownership over research that moves quickly from idea → simulation → production.
What You’ll Do
- Research and develop alpha, signals, and features for systematic futures strategies
- Work with high-frequency market data to model microstructure, execution, and short-horizon predictability
- Iterate rapidly on strategy ideas, with tight feedback loops from live trading
- Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to improve execution and PnL
- Contribute to technical and strategic discussions shaping desk direction
Ideal Candidate
- 2 years of HFT quantitative research or trading experience in futures or highly liquid products
- Proven history of live, profitable strategies in short-horizon environments
- Strong grasp of market microstructure, statistics, and time-series modeling
- Experience with large-scale, compute-heavy research
- Strong coding skills in Python and/or C
- BS/MS/PhD in a quantitative field (Math, Physics, CS, Engineering)
- Comfortable in fast-moving, high-ownership trading environments
- Machine Learning experience is a huge plus!