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Millennium · 6 hours ago

Team Lead, Quantitative Developer - Equities Technology

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$175K/yr - $250K/yr

12+ years exp

Millennium is a leading firm in the financial services sector, seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer in a team-lead capacity. This role focuses on designing and implementing low-latency C++ systems while leading a team of developers to enhance trading performance and execution efficiency.

Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesHedge Funds

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and manage a team of quantitative developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture

Development of execution algorithms, order management systems, strategy containers, connectivity, and messaging systems

Work directly with central trading teams to optimize the firm’s overall execution performance

Enhance the platform's efficiency by utilizing network and systems programming, along with other advanced techniques to reduce latency

Create systems, interfaces, and tools for historical market data and trading simulations to boost research productivity and system testability

Assist in building and maintaining our automated tests, performance benchmark framework, and other tools

Collaborate closely with trading teams to gather requirements and develop solutions in a fast-paced environment

Qualification

C++Low-latency systemsMultithreadingLinux internalsFinancial servicesPythonExecution algorithm analysisData structuresAlgorithmsObject-oriented programming

Required

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field

12+ years of cumulative professional experience in software development

7+ years of professional experience in a front-office, financial services environment, with a proven track record as a senior contributor or technical lead

Strong background in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming in C++

Proficiency with new features of C++17 and C++20

Proficiency with multithreading and asynchronous environments

Strong understanding of low-latency and real-time system design and implementation

Strong understanding of Linux system internals and networking

Strong financial experience across multiple asset classes, with a focus on real-time low-latency trading systems for equities and futures

Familiarity with python for quantitative research and data-oriented processing

Familiarity with analysis of execution algorithm performance

Benefits

Discretionary performance bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Company

Millennium

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Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989, which manages $83.5 billion in assets.

Founded in 1989

New York, New York, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.mlp.com

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