Quantitative Developer

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the analytics platform supporting volatility strategies, futures, or equities including infrastructure and other datasets used by researchers and traders.
• Productionize quantitative research models and integrate them into backtesting and live trading systems.
• Design and implement scalable storage and processing systems for equities, futures, options, and other market and risk data.
• Develop and enhance backtesting infrastructure to support complex research workflows and large-scale simulations.
• Build and maintain risk, PnL, and portfolio analytics systems used for monitoring and evaluating trading strategies.
• Develop GUIs, visualization tools, and developer-facing applications that improve researcher and trader productivity.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability across data, analytics, and research infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to translate research ideas across volatility strategies, futures or equities teams into robust, production-grade solutions.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD degree in a STEM field.
• Strong, demonstrable C++ engineering skills — this is the most important requirement for the role.
• Solid finance and options asset-class expertise; a genuine understanding of the options domain is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with options market data, including how it is best stored and structured for performance.
• Familiarity with implied volatility surfaces and a strong understanding of options pricing.
• Experience building or substantially improving backtesting infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

• Applications are open for both Stamford and New York City offices, the latter with a planned opening in October 2026.
• The base salary range is $175,000 - $200,000 depending on the candidate’s educational and professional background. Base salary is one component of Trexquant’s total compensation, which may also include a discretionary, performance-based bonus. This position is classified as overtime-exempt.