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Quantitative Trader – Voleon Securities

A desk role at a new automated market-making business, mixing live monitoring with analytics projects. It sits with senior traders and research, and the desk is expanding into more markets.

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.

Watch automated execution and risk and respond to alerts
Build data pipelines and dashboards measuring execution quality
Run statistical analyses on trading data
Extend the desk into equities and futures
Work with venues, clients and clearing counterparties

What they ask for

Required

2+ years of institutional trading
Python and SQL for analysis
Solid statistics
Unix, shell and git
pandas or Polars, DuckDB or Parquet
Data visualisation
Bachelor's in a quantitative subject

Preferred

Master's degree
Fixed income trading or microstructure
Pipeline tooling such as Airflow
FIX protocol exposure

Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative or scientific discipline; master's preferred
Experience: 2+ years of institutional trading, ideally on a quantitative desk
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: credit, fixed-income, equities, futures

How to prepare

Build execution-quality analytics from public trade or quote data
Study credit, rates and ETF market structure
Learn the FIX protocol basics
Practise data analysis in DuckDB and Polars

What to study

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