This is an amazing opportunity to join an international company with a head office in London. You can be based anywhere in the world, as the position can be based either remote or in a London office. Our client is an incredible success story. It is a proprietary trading firm and alternative investment manager with a primary focus on quantitative and fundamental sports trading.  With their professionals based in Europe, Asia, and USA,  the group combines deep research and proprietary technology-driven methodologies to trade on all major public exchanges and markets to generate risk-adjusted returns. Their trading philosophy is driven by our passion for competitive sports and quantitative research.

The successful quantitative developer candidate will join their betting solutions team. These solutions entail the development of mathematical/statistical models and high-performance algorithms, efficient coding, automation of betting operations, data generation, acquisition, storage, and manipulation, and performance analysis through back-testing and simulations. They use a variety of programming languages but are standardising on Python for our data analysis and scripting needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of production strategies in Python
• Development of the simulation engine

Skills/Competencies Required:

• Financial services background
• Python experience: 3 – 5 years
• Experience writing/testing production strategies
• Bonus: AWS / Anaconda