CTO - Selby Jennings : Job Details

Selby Jennings has partnered with a quantitative hedge fund based in NYC that is recruiting for a hands on CTO to take ownership of the engineering team and technological strategy. You will partner with the Director of Quantitative Research and lead the development of quantitative research and trading infrastructure.

This firm is focused on mid-frequency equity StatArb trading strategies and is coding in C++ and Python. You will lead a team of five software engineers and provide hands-on leadership on front-office and back-office trading systems.

You will be able to work on:

• Development of a new automated trading system and simulation environment
• Steer overall technical direction for trading system development and infrastructure
• Partner with the quantitative research team and understand what they are doing and why.
• Design and specification of storage and compute farm infrastructure of continuously increasing scale and sophistication

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics, or computer science
• At least five years' post-degree work experience, including several years in a quantitative trading environment (with low-latency trading of futures, interest rates, and equities being ideal.
• A talent for algorithm design and optimization
• Fluency in C++ and familiarity with Python