Strategy Developer

Location Sydney
Discipline: Financial Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Lewis Piper

Contact email: lewis.piper@venturesearch.com
Job ref: 2694
Published: 7 days ago
Our client is a high-frequency trading firm operating the global cryptocurrency market.

What you’ll do:

This is an opportunity to develop trading strategies within the cryptocurrency markets. Our client is looking for someone to work with their traders based in Asia.
  • Transform trading opportunities into profits. Improve and invent trading and market making strategies while minding risk and any market-making obligations. You will oversee the entire process, including problem identification, analysing data, writing software, and providing ongoing support.
  • Improve and develop systems for automated monitoring of trading.
  • Develop C++ and Python applications that leverage internally-developed, normalised interfaces for market data and order execution.
  • Work with both existing codebases and new ones.
  • Collaborate closely with others. The business, development, and trading teams regularly work in concert with each other.
  • Monitor trading, especially of new algorithms, and ensure that our systems are performing as desired from a technical, risk, and profit perspective.
  • Use your experience working directly with trading teams to identify and surface opportunities to improve Auros’s technical systems and architecture.
  • Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms, and general banter.
Requirements:
  • Experience developing high-performance trading strategies for trading and especially market making in traditional or cryptocurrency markets.
  • Experience with low latency trading algorithms, market making and/or high frequency arbitrage, including an understanding of risks associated with managing a portfolio.
  • At least three years of experience in developing clean, maintainable, and performant code in C++ on Linux.
  • Experience with latency-optimised, distributed systems that are built to robustly handle many transactions.
  • Ability to find a balance between delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities.
  • You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software, and willing to be on call to support the systems you develop.
Highly Desirable:
  • A thorough understanding of network programming, namely UDP, TCP, TLS, and Websockets.
  • Experience profiling C++ code with any of Cachegrind, Valgrind or other profiling tools.
  • Experience configuring and monitoring Linux machines.
  • Experience with inter-process messaging via shared memory.
  • Experience with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS.