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Senior Mid-Frequency Quantitative Trader

A senior role to build a new mid-frequency futures trading business at TransMarket Group. It combines research, signals and trading with holding periods of minutes to hours.

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.

Develop automated futures strategies with holding periods of minutes to hours
Build models that predict futures prices
Expand the firm's signals library
Improve the backtester and other tooling for the new desk

What they ask for

Required

Track record of profitable quantitative models
Broad and deep mathematical background
Python for numerical work
Interest in markets and microstructure
Technical degree and relevant industry experience

Preferred

C++ in industry

Education: Bachelor's, master's or doctorate in a technical field plus relevant industry experience
Experience: Experienced; a record of profitable models
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: futures

How to prepare

Build a futures signal with realistic costs and test it out of sample
Study intraday patterns in liquid futures
Design a signals library with clean interfaces
Review backtest pitfalls such as lookahead bias

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