We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer to join the firm’s Quantitative Development & Data team (QDD). This team is responsible for architecture and development of libraries, web services, dashboards, and databases that facilitate Portfolio Managers' alpha generation, strategy deployment, and risk management.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and build scalable web services and distributed systems for applications and front office users (FastAPI, ECS)
- Build front end tools web dashboards (Flask, Django) for market monitoring, trade screening and risk management.
- Engineer large timeseries and data solutions and ETLs (using SQL, no-SQL, C#, and Python) for market data, quant analytics and alpha generation
- Build and maintain quant libraries in Python.
- Promote best coding practices within the firm
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering)
- 10+ years of relevant experience in hedge Funds, investment banks or financial services domain
- Excellent quantitative reasoning and software design
- Strong Python skills
- Demonstrated experience with high-efficiency programming and multi-threading
- Clear grasp of SQL and relational database fundamentals
- Ability to multitask and produce high-quality code
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Operates with the highest degree of ethics and integrity
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of financial instruments & data: FX, Futures, Interest Rates derivatives, Options
- AWS practitioner experience
- Experience in another object-oriented language such as C#, Java or C++
- Front end design experience
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or another quantitative field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in hedge funds, investment banks, or financial services
- Excellent quantitative reasoning and software design skills
- Strong Python skills
- Experience with high-efficiency programming and multithreading
- Strong understanding of SQL and relational database fundamentals
- Ability to multitask and produce high-quality code
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- High degree of ethics and integrity
- Knowledge of financial instruments and data, including FX, futures, interest-rate derivatives, or options
- AWS practitioner experience
- Experience with another object-oriented language such as C#, Java, or C++
- Front-end design experience
What We Do
Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in New York, London, Monaco, Singapore and Dubai. Caxton Associates’ primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through a suite of products designed to fit the specific needs of investors. Employing a multi-portfolio manager framework, Caxton excels in discretionary global macro investing, leveraging its diversified expertise across asset classes and markets
