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Production Trader – Market Making

A trader on a market-making team in futures, ETFs and stocks running fully automated, low-latency strategies. The role monitors systems and manages risk and pricing.

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.

Run and monitor live automated trading systems
Manage book sizes and risk
Price ETFs, EFPs and BTICs
Suggest strategy and system improvements with quants and IT

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in a STEM field
3–7 years in finance
Back-testing and simulation
Statistics (autoregression, PCA)
Tick-data analysis
Python
Linux and SQL

Preferred

Quantitative trading experience

Education: Master's or PhD in mathematics, statistics, computer science or equivalent.
Experience: 3–7 years in the financial industry
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Linux
Markets: futures, equities

How to prepare

Learn how ETFs, EFPs and BTICs are priced
Analyse tick data in Python and test simple signals
Study market-making inventory and risk
Review time-series methods like autocorrelation and PCA

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Tower Research Capital and doesn’t handle applications.