Company: Daksh Limited
Company Address: Room-9, Smart Space Fintech 1, Level-6, Core-E, Cyberport-3, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong
Company Website: http://www.dakshtrading.com/
Company Background:
Daksh Trading is a fast growing high frequency trading firm specializing in automated
market making strategies. We strive to be at the forefront of low latency execution,
financial modelling and risk management.
Type of Industry: Financial Technology
Job Title: Quantitative Developer
Job Type: Graduate Job
Department: N/A
No. of Vacancy: 1
Target Students: Year 4
Job Description:
Primary Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for delivering and controlling end-to-end product development.
a. Work directly with traders who have a deep respect for technology.
b. Collect and analyze data.
c. Prototype solutions and models in order to confirm validity and effectiveness of the proposals.
d. Develop, test and back-test production ready solutions
You will write code for
a. New features
b. Latency and stability improvements
c. Analyzing huge volume of data
d. Implementing and testing new design ideas
You will be responsible for managing your time and tasks on development, analysis and experimentation.
You will be required to keep a variety of systems and technologies up-to-date and improve them for business operations.
Job Requirements:
Academic requirement:
1. Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field
2. Understanding of Computer Architecture
3. Knowledge of Algorithms and Data structures
4. Strong Quantitative skills
Coding/IT Skills:
1. Ability to work in a Linux environment
2. Ability to write clean, reliable and highly scalable code
3. Experience of development in C++
4. Experience with high-transaction, low-latency optimisation
5. Some networking experience
6. Understanding of CPU architecture
7. Understanding of test-driven and data-driven design
8. We extensively use Python as a tool for data mining,analysis and scripting. Knowledge of Python is a plus.
9. We use Javascript as a tool for front-end display for traders. Knowledge of JavaScript is a plus.
Must be Interested in:
1. Achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software
2. Attracted to the dynamics and fundamentals of the financial markets
3. Eagerness to learn and broaden one's skill set is a must, also outside your department
Communication Skills:
1. Ability to communicate with technical and business colleagues
2. Fluent in English is a must
Personality Traits:
1. Ability to work independently and also in a team
2. Can take initiative
3. Highly analytical and good problem solving qualities
4. Detail oriented and precise
Expected Commencement Date/Period: Flexible
Monthly Salary: Negotiable
Working Days: 5 days per week
Working Hours: 9am-7pm
Annual Leave: 15 days
Benefits:
What we offer:
1. Competitive package
2. Learn about top of the class trading system.
3. Quick feedback loop. There is nothing like seeing your ideas/solutions make an impact on business real quick. We deploy quickly and often to get incremental benefits as they are developed.
4. We operate at the bleeding edge of technology, that keeps us on toes and always excited about technology shaping our business.
5. Opportunity to learn as we really believe in sharing knowledge and technology, helping individual in their personal growth.
6. To see and learn up close how financial markets work.
7. Getting to know, learn and share ideas and solutions with other smart people.
Snacks, drinks and gym membership
Application Details:
Please apply by sending your resume to recruitment@dakshtrading.com with the subject
“Quantitative Software Developer job opening”.
Application Deadline: 29 January 2024 (Monday)
Date Exhibited: 4 January 2024