Python Developer - Narberth, United States - Susquehanna International Group

Description

Overview

SIG is a proprietary trading firm that's dependent on a strong and creative technology team. We sit next to our stakeholders, allowing for a quick feedback cycle and a firsthand look at how our user interacts with our product. We value decision making and asking questions, and we pride ourselves on the fact that working at SIG is more than just a job.

In this role, you will

• Research, design, develop and improve systems used in backtesting and data analysis for automated option trading strategies
• Work with quantitative analysts, trading technologists and traders to build both ad-hoc and systematic tools and data which help in optimizing trading behavior and results
• Work with infrastructure developers to scale computations for high throughput

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You'll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to translate complex trading problems into scalable and highly performant hardware solutions.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don't expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We're looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: SIG offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline or its foreign equivalent; advanced degree is preferred
• 5 years of professional experience developing software and data systems, or advanced graduate work
• Fluency in at least one low level language (C++, C#, Java) and one higher level language (Python, Lisp, Matlab, Julia)
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, and operating systems concepts
• Facility working with large object-oriented code bases, using multiple languages and tools
• Experience building large scale data transformation pipelines
• Enthusiasm for working with data, especially large sets of data, automating operations. Good aesthetics for cleanliness and correctness in data
• Experience in Linux shell environment and with text processing tool chains, Windows development platform experience a plus
• Experience with some higher level data analysis/manipulations languages/tools (R, Pandas, Julia)
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• An interest in large scale computing problems and solutions, and understanding of performance trade-offs is plus
• Experience in a data or compute intensive role required

About SIGSIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we doWe are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

SIG does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.

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