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Conducts quantitative research and experimentation for options market-making strategies. Responsibilities include building production testing pipelines, analyzing post-trade data, maintaining large tick-data datasets, presenting findings, and developing trading features and parameter configurations. The role requires learning options-market microstructure, exchange mechanics, networking, and FPGA-related concepts while collaborating with trading and engineering teams.

Lead the Information Systems and Helpdesk teams, oversee enterprise systems and ensure system reliability, performance, and security in a trading environment.

Supports ETF market-making by configuring and validating trading logic, onboarding products, managing venue and market-data dependencies, and analyzing production trading and execution data. Builds execution-quality metrics, identifies configuration and data-quality issues, automates validation and monitoring, supports testing and deployments, and develops productivity tools. Partners with traders and technology teams to improve workflows, controls, and trading strategies.

Support daily trading operations by monitoring and reconciling trades, positions, cash, and clearing activity. Investigate discrepancies, coordinate with traders, finance, engineering, exchanges, brokers, and clearing firms, and support trade lifecycle events and corporate actions. Maintain books and records, strengthen controls, document procedures, and help automate reporting and exception-management processes to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.

Looking for an experienced electronic options trader to manage risk across multiple products and collaborate with engineers and traders.

Seeking an experienced trader to enhance profitability through algorithm development and research in options pricing on a trading desk.

Develop and enhance performance-critical C++ applications for ultra-low latency trading systems, collaborating across teams to analyze and optimize performance.

Seeking an experienced Quantitative Trader for high-frequency trading alphas in futures markets, focusing on data analysis, model validation, and technology stack contributions.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design high-performance applications, collaborate on trading software development, optimize systems, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.

Build and maintain reporting systems and SQL-based data pipelines for trading operations. Create dashboards and performance benchmarks, analyze transaction costs and slippage, ensure data integrity, monitor anomalies, and collaborate with traders, sales, engineers, and researchers to define and document reporting needs and system configurations.