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Quant Trader – Dublin

A quant trading role on a growing market-making team at a proprietary trading firm in Dublin. You trade, model opportunities and build tools with traders and technologists.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Manage positions and act on trading opportunities
Monitor and troubleshoot the proprietary trading infrastructure
Model trading ideas using real market data
Build tools that guide trading and risk decisions

What they ask for

Required

Python or a similar language
Statistics, probability and optimisation
Data analysis tools such as R, MATLAB, Pandas, NumPy
Curiosity about markets, algorithmic trading and microstructure
Clear communication
Office-based working

Preferred

kdb+/q or SQL
Trading competitions, maths contests or poker
Machine learning such as regression, neural networks or SVMs

Education: No degree level stated
Experience: Experience at a proprietary trading firm preferred
Languages and tools: Python
R
MATLAB
SQL
KDB+/q

How to prepare

Work through probability and statistics problems and market-making puzzles
Analyse tick data in Pandas and study spread and inventory behaviour
Learn the basics of kdb+/q for time-series queries
Build a simple market-making simulation with inventory risk

What to study

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