Quantitative Python Developer

Overview

Susquehanna technologists are at the heart of where cutting-edge technology meets the fast-paced world of trading.  Our growing teams build some of the most powerful trading systems in the financial industry and solve complex problems in a constantly changing environment. From large scale computations, real-time systems, high performance computing to petabytes of data. By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimise systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. Collaborating with traders and quantitative researchers, our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

As a Software Developer within our Trading Systems team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with traders and the firm’s top technologists. Ideally, you will have a background in trading systems and/or performance tuning and want the chance to compete against the best systems in the world.

What you’ll do

• Develop and enhance trading applications by designing, implementing, and delivering complex software systems that meet the business needs.
• Solve complex problems by providing innovative and scalable solutions with a focus on high frequency and low latency automated trading.
• Bring/gain a thorough understanding of the business domain (trading, strategies, market making, market data and low latency).
• This is a hands-on role where you will thrive on the technology challenges. You will see your ideas and hard work used by experienced traders across a diverse range of instruments and markets.

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: As an essential member of the team, your role involves supporting, innovating, and optimizing systems processing massive amounts of data, all while ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Trading, Quantitative Researchers, Infrastructure and Strategy Developer Teams to develop and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region.

Growth: We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.

Your role :

As a Quantitative Developer you will be closely working with traders, quant analysts, and trading strategy developers to:

• Develop, maintain and deploy analytical tools (Python) that will directly influence trading strategies.
• Source, cleanse, develop and maintain data pipelines as required the trading teams.
• Experience with processing of large and varied data sets
• Performance-tune existing applications and processes, improve existing codebases and data flows to allow for efficient processing of large data sets.

What we’re looking for

• Experience with the Python data science stack: NumPy, Pandas etc.
• Experience with numeric data storage methodologies, e.g., hdf5
• Experience of working in a Linux environment
• Strong knowledge in computer networking, e.g., UDP, multicasting
• Ability to understand financial models and mathematical algorithms.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with traders, quantitative analysts, and other software developers.
• Experience or interest in areas such as capital markets, probability, game theory and the application of IT solutions to these areas is a plus.

About Susquehanna:

Susquehanana is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. What we do:We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

Susquehanna does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of Susquehanna and no fee will be paid.

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