Research Engineering Team Lead
Flow Traders seeks an adept Research Engineer Team Lead to join the Quantitative Tools team stationed in the Amsterdam office. This distinguished role offers the opportunity to integrate with a top proprietary trading firm renowned for its enterprising and creative work environment. We are keen on astute, imaginative individuals and encourage them to leverage their abilities to the fullest.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and provide guidance to a small team accountable for advancing our global research frameworks and tools
- Drive the design and growth of our systematic trading platform, encompassing research frameworks and tools, as well as production trading systems
- Coordinate the collaborative endeavors essential for extending the platform's reach globally across all involved teams
Requirements for Success:
- Proficiency in leading, coaching, and mentoring junior engineers
- Over 10 years of experience in the software development field within a dynamic tech setting
- Previous commercial exposure to crafting and executing systematic trading systems, including low-latency trading engines/algorithms, research frameworks/pipelines, and their integration
- Extensive practical expertise as a key individual contributor in Python, Java, and/or C++
- Demonstrated capability to steer software architecture and decision-making across the organization
- Knowledge of Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Spark, as well as machine learning tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong analytical acumen and a data-centric perspective
Flow Traders does not welcome unsolicited resumes from professional staffing or search firms. Any submissions of resumes or candidate information to Flow Traders employees via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be considered open for contact by Flow Traders without constraints, and no placement fee will be compensated if the candidate is hired.
