Quantitative Trader

Responsibilities

• Work in teams to seek out and trade on pricing inefficiencies
• Develop proprietary trading models and manage risk
• Investigate new products and push into new business areas
• Begin as an assistant trader and take on increasing responsibility as ability is demonstrated

Requirements

• Strong quantitative mind and enjoyment of collaborative problem solving
• Fluency in English
• Prior knowledge of finance or economics is not required
• Programming experience is not required, though general programming comfort is a plus

About the Company

Jane Street is a trading firm that considers itself as much a technology company as a trading firm. Trading is based on proprietary models, and on busy days the firm engages in over a million trades. The company uses OCaml, a statically-typed functional programming language, as its primary development language, and has the largest team of OCaml Engineers in any industrial setting.