Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets' research. We are seeking a Quant Analyst - Risk for our team in Gurugram. Graviton trades across a multitude of asset classes and trading venues using a gamut of concepts and techniques ranging from time series analysis, filtering, classification, stochastic models, pattern recognition to statistical inference analysing terabytes of data to come up with ideas to identify pricing anomalies in financial markets.
As a Quant Analyst - Risk you will be responsible
- Work as a team with senior traders to operate and implement/improve our automated trading strategies.
- Analysing production trades and developing ideas to improve our trading strategies.
- Implement monitoring tools which highlight potential issues in the production strategies.
- Write comprehensive and scalable scripts in both C++ and python analysing production strategies for risk
- attribution, performance break-ups along various buckets and so on.
- Build ‘cool’ scalable post-trade systems analysing multitude of statistics across all production strategies.
- Implementing tools for analysing Market Data centrally across various exchanges.
- Managing deployments and release cycle, with working along with a senior trader.
Requirements :
- Possess a degree in a highly analytical field, such as Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science from top-ranked universities
- 3+ years of experience in Python, Shell/Bash scripting.
- Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools
- Basic programming and scripting (Python/Shell) skills
- Strong problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Have a strong work ethics
- Mentorship experience in guiding junior developers.
Benefits:
Our open and collaborative work culture gives you the freedom to innovate and experiment. Our cubicle free offices, non-hierarchical work culture and insistence to hire the very best creates a melting pot for great ideas and technological innovations. Everyone on the team is approachable, there is nothing better than working with friends!
Our perks have you covered.
- Competitive compensation
- Annual international team outing
- Fully covered commuting expenses
- Best-in-class health insurance
- Delightful catered breakfasts and lunches
- A well-stocked kitchen
- 4 week annual leaves along with market holidays
- Gym and sports club memberships
- Regular social events and clubs
- After work parties
Skills Required
- Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science from a top-ranked university
- 3+ years of experience in Python and Shell/Bash scripting
- Experience writing analysis code in C++
- Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong work ethics
- Mentorship experience guiding junior developers
What We Do
Graviton is a quantitative investment firm established in 2014. Since our inception, we have created a team of researchers, portfolio managers, and technologists. The use of quantitative analysis and insights in financial markets enables us to compete in some of the most complex and competitive products. As an emerging electronic trading firm, we integrate disciplines such as computer science, finance, systems engineering, and statistics. We have a team of passionate engineers and traders who have built some of the fastest systems for trading. Graviton has some of the most accomplished quantitative traders in India. We have separate trading teams who use a wide range of trading strategies across different asset classes. Each of our trading teams maintains a focus on their individual processes while being supported from the core support team. Our trading teams have strategic autonomy but have access to resources which are shared across the organization like software, technology, and connectivity. They also exchange market data and memberships, compliance and all related support functions which are needed to handle the business process with precision.
