HFT Quant Trader - Commodity Futures

€150,000-200,000 EUR

+ Performance based bonus

Onsite WORKING

Location: Paris, Île-de-France - France Type: Permanent

HFT Quant Trader - Paris

My client is a leading systematic trading firm which is expanding a new commodities market making team with a Quantitative Trader. This firm can offer strong base salaries and performance-based bonuses, in addition to pension, insurance, and medical benefits. This is an opportunity for a Quant Researcher/Trader from an electronic trading background to join an exciting new business where they will research and manage trading algorithms at low-latency.

The Role:

• Research and manage short-term/HFT market taking strategies across commodity futures markets, particularly Energy futures.
• Cover microstructure analysis, pricing, signal generation, and hedging strategy responsibilities.
• Manage other trading operations, such as tweaking/optimising trading systems and managing risk.
• Design and backtest quantitative trading algorithms.
• Implement, optimize and improve strategies in live trading.

• 2+ years experience as an Electronic Trading quant at a trading firm or bank.
• Advanced programming skills in Python and experience with C++ or Java.
• A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD level degree from a top university in a numerical field of study such as engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics etc.
• Ability to work in a team with colleagues in other regions.