The Quantitative Developer will contribute to the development of software for live trading and research, focus on optimizing code performance, build continuous integration pipelines, and enhance system stability through improved monitoring and alerting.
Tower Research Capital, a market-leading proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Quant Developer to join one of its trading teams in Singapore. You will be working for a successful MFT trading team, helping to enhance existing capabilities and increase robustness of live trading.
Responsibilities
- Contributing new software components both for live trading and research that scale effectively
- Designing and extending data-intensive ETL pipelines
- Profiling and optimizing the hot paths of the codebase for performance
- Building and maintaining continuous integration pipelines
- Enhancing the live system’s stability and observability via monitoring and alerting
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering.
- 2 years experience with core Python and its mainstream big data / scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
- Working experience with at least one strongly typed programming language (ideally C++)
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and geographically distributed environment
Nice to Have
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash
- Experience with Google Cloud platform
- Experience with workflow management and task scheduling
Benefits
Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses
- 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
- Breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
- International medical insurance
- Free gym membership
- For employees ineligible to participate in the CPF, the cash equivalent of the employer’s CPF contribution
- Free events and workshops
- Donation matching program
Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.
Top Skills
C++
Python
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