Tower Research Capital, a market-leading proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Quant Developer to join one of its trading teams in Sydney. You will be paired with a Portfolio Manager to build a new business around a state-of-the-art research & trading platform for medium-frequency trading. You are expected to design and implement high-performance and resilient software using cutting-edge technologies and gain high exposure to the systematic trading business.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the PM to extend the trading platform for new asset classes and strategies
• Contributing new software components both for live trading and research that scale effectively
• Designing and extending data-intensive ETL pipelines
• Profiling and optimizing the hot paths of the codebase for performance
• Building and maintaining continuous integration pipelines and introducing SDLC standards
• Enhancing the live system’s stability and observability via monitoring and alerting

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering. A Master's degree is preferred
• At least 3 years experience with core Python and its mainstream big data / scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, Numba, FastAPI, Parquet)
• Working experience with at least one strongly typed programming language (ideally Rust, or C++)
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and geographically distributed environment

Nice to Have

• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash
• Experience with containers and cloud orchestration frameworks like Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with workflow management and task scheduling

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Meals and snacks on a daily basis
• Medical insurance
• Gym membership allowance
• Free events and workshops
• Donation matching program

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.