Quant jobs / Nomura

eTrading Strategist / Developer – Rates (Associate / Vice President)

A strat-developer role on a rates electronic trading team that runs automated strategies, eBooks and pricing across client and dealer venues. It mixes quantitative strategy work with building trading systems.

What you’d work on

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Build and tune automated rates trading strategies and pricing for electronic venues
Improve execution algorithms to cut market impact
Monitor strategy performance and make real-time adjustments
Turn trading ideas from quants and traders into production code

What they ask for

Required

Electronic trading and fixed income knowledge
Market microstructure and order types
Programming in C++, Java or Python
Low-latency environments
Statistical analysis
Agile delivery for trading users

Preferred

Machine learning
KDB or other time-series databases
Distributed systems and cloud
Market-making and HFT knowledge

Education: Degree in computer science, maths, physics or a related quantitative field (listed as desirable)
Experience: Electronic trading or similar experience in financial markets (years not stated)
Languages and tools: C++
Java
Python
KDB+/q
Markets: fixed-income

How to prepare

Build a market-making simulator for a rates product with inventory and quoting logic
Study how electronic rates venues, RFQ and order book trading work
Learn kdb+/q basics by analysing a tick data set
Practise low-latency Java or C++ and profile your code

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