Quantitative Developer
Caxton Associates
New York, new york
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About Caxton:
Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in London, New York, Monaco , Singapore and Dubai. Caxton Associates’ primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through global macro hedge fund strategies. Assets are managed via a broad mandate to trade in a variety of global markets and instruments.
About the Role:
Caxton seeks a Quantitative Developer to join the firm’s Quantitative Development & Data team (QDD).
QDD is responsible for architecture and development of libraries, web services, dashboards, and databases that facilitate Portfolio Managers' alpha generation, strategy deployment, and risk management.
The team has presence in both London and New York. They work closely with the Quantitative Analytics Group as well as Trading Staff.
Responsibilities:
- Build dashboards for market monitoring, risk management, and trade screening. Full-stack development with Web and Excel front ends.
- Improve and extend quant libraries in Python.
- Engineer databases and ETLs (using SQL, no-SQL, Python, and C#) for quant analytics and alpha generation.
- Develop shared services such as centralized log capture, pricing services, and data APIs.
Requirements
- 3-7 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Excellent quantitative reasoning and software design
- Strong Python with at least 1 year of professional use
- Demonstrated experience with high-efficiency programming and multi-threading
- Clear grasp of SQL and relational database fundamentals
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of financial instruments & data is a huge plus: FX, Futures, Interest Rates products, Options
- C# experience is a huge plus
- Front end design experience is a plus
- Operates with the highest degree of ethics and integrity
Benefits
The base pay range for this role is between $125,000 and $180,000 annually. Actual base pay will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant experience, seniority, business needs, and market demands. In addition to the base pay, successful candidates will be entitled to discretionary bonus.