Principal Quantitative Developer | Systematic Trading Infrastructure

StaffRight Associates
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Tech stack

C++
Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems
High-Frequency Trading
Python
Systems Architecture
Feature Engineering
Information Technology
Production Code
Data Delivery

Job description

  • Orchestrate high-performance data delivery systems that ingest and normalize real-time global market signals with nanosecond-level sensitivity.
  • Engineer integrated research ecosystems that bridge the gap between abstract feature engineering and high-fidelity production execution.
  • Architect elastic, cloud-native simulation platforms capable of executing petascale experimentation without compromising computational throughput.
  • Formalize robust toolchains and frameworks for nascent asset classes, establishing the architectural standards for diverse trading strategies.
  • Validate the systemic integrity of quantitative models, ensuring that complex predictive logic is translated into durable, scalable production code.
  • Optimize the boundary between low-latency C++ components and flexible Pythonic frameworks to achieve peak system performance.

Requirements

The evolution of systematic finance necessitates a rigorous convergence of Computational Mathematics and High-Performance Software Engineering. This mandate requires an elite practitioner possessing a Ph.D. or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline, characterized by a first-principles mastery of distributed systems and algorithmic efficiency. The successful candidate will navigate the complex intersection of Quantitative Research and Production Engineering, applying theoretical rigor to solve non-trivial challenges in high-throughput data orchestration and large-scale simulation frameworks. This is an invitation for a forensic architectural mind to engineer the foundational substrates of a premier independent quantitative institution., * Architectural Philosophy: You possess an innate drive to build durable, scalable frameworks rather than transient scripts. Your approach to system design emphasizes modularity, resilience, and quantitative intuition.

  • Systemic Ownership: Demonstrated history of spearheading large-scale technical initiatives. You are a practitioner-leader capable of navigating high-trust environments where the CTO delegates mission-critical sovereignty.
  • Technical Versatility: Expert-level proficiency in Python for system architecture, complemented by C++ for performance-critical bottlenecks.
  • Quantitative Judgment: A sophisticated understanding of the interaction between market data, statistical models, and execution logic. You speak the language of researchers while maintaining the discipline of a software engineer.
  • Communicative Precision: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to stakeholders. Your documentation and verbal synthesis must match your code in clarity and rigor., * Educational Foundation: A Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related Quantitative Field from a top-tier global institution.
  • Professional Tenure: Typically 6-15+ years of high-impact experience within elite systematic funds, high-frequency trading firms, or premier technology laboratories.
  • Mathematical Rigor: Deep familiarity with distributed systems, cloud computing, and the statistical foundations of quantitative finance.

About the company

StaffRight Associates is sourcing to spearhead a search for a Senior Quantitative Systems Architect. Following a historic institutional transition into a multi-billion dollar independent entity, this role offers the rare opportunity to engineer the core infrastructure of a globally dominant systematic platform. You will be tasked with decoupling complex legacy dependencies and synthesizing a next-generation research-to-production lifecycle. This is a high-stakes environment where engineering resilience is paramount, and technical contributions directly dictate the alpha-generating capacity of a world-class quant firm.

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