Digital Assets Quantitative Researcher

Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Quantitative Researcher to join our Digital Assets business. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and quantitative culture at the heart of its business. As a firm, we are committed to leveraging advances in computer science, statistics, and machine learning to generate value in the financial markets.

As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will be responsible for expanding our Digital Assets trading capabilities by leveraging Flow Traders’ cutting-edge research and quantitative trading platform.

What you will do

• Identify our competitive advantages in Digital Assets markets and build quantitative strategies to convert them into actionable trading opportunities.
• Develop pricing and execution models and oversee their deployment in profitable, end-to-end quantitative trading strategies.
• Research and optimize systematic market-making strategies across Digital Assets products and venues.
• Collaborate with Trading and Technology to bring quantitative strategies from research into production.

What you need to succeed

• 3+ years of experience in systematic trading.
• A proven track record of developing profitable trading or systematic market-making strategies.
• A nuanced understanding of financial markets, electronic trading, and market microstructure.
• Demonstrated success translating modern quantitative methods into profitable trading strategies.
• Experience working with large-scale market datasets, machine-learning operations frameworks, and high-performance computing.
• Excellent communication skills and experience managing stakeholders across Trading and Technology.
• A strategic vision for the role of machine learning and AI in the future of algorithmic trading.
• Experience in Digital Assets markets is preferred.

What we offer

At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hard-working, high-performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to latest technology and a collaborative, non-hierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close-knit, small-company feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here, and stay here.   See our benefits below:

• Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
• In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
• Company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
• Bi-weekly massages
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
• Global rotations across our offices worldwide
• and more

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.