About the Role
The Trade Operations team manages Dexterity’s live trading environment. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the trading system as well as handling risk and capital deployment. The Trade Operations team focuses on automating tasks, driving monetization, and preparing for the unexpected. A typical day might include coding a tt orderbook from scratch in python, debugging odd behavior in an exchange integration, and deploying a live strategy with updated parameters.
In this role you will engage with exchanges and fulfill technical requirements. Successful members of the team have exceptional communication and organizational skills along with a very high attention to detail and strong technology background. Projects include: market access, monitoring, algo/strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning, and automation. This is a full time, in-person role at our San Francisco office.
Profile
- Excellent design, debugging, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and fix problems quickly
- Very high attention to detail
- Ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
- Commitment to continuous improvement of yourself and your software
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 0-2 years of work experience in ops or equivalent field
- Excellent work ethic
- Basic knowledge of computer programming
- Familiarity with computing hardware
- Ambitious with a strong desire to make an impact
- Familiarity with Python and C++ programming language
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux)
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $175,000 to $200,000
- Participation in company bonus pool
- Health insurance and wellness benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy
- This is a full-time in person role in our San Francisco office
Top Skills
What We Do
We love challenges. So we built Dexterity Capital, a quantitative trading firm focused on solving the hardest problems in finance. By combining brilliant people, world-class technology, and rich proprietary datasets we've built an algorithmic execution engine that trades billions of dollars every day.
We specialize in market neutral strategies. That means we thrive regardless of whether the bulls or bears are winning. With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, and London we run our strategies 24/7 around the globe.
At Dexterity Capital, we believe rigorous research, creativity, and a competitive streak are the keys to success. We also believe great outcomes merit great rewards. Find out more about working with us below.
