Quant Trader / Researcher, Exchange Market Making
$250k/y-$300k/y
Selby Jenningsa day ago
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Summary
Selby Jennings is seeking a Quant Trader / Researcher, Exchange Market Making to join their team in New York, Chicago, or London. The role involves building, scaling, and operating a next-generation exchange market making platform.
About the Role
As a Quant Trader / Researcher, you will design and implement market making strategies across various asset classes, improve pricing and inventory management models, and analyze exchange microstructure. You will collaborate with engineers to develop trading pipelines and maintain strong risk discipline while managing inventory and quoting obligations in real time.
About You
Required:
- Strong experience building or operating systematic strategies in a market making or liquidity provision role.
- Proficiency in Python or C++ and comfort working in a production Linux environment.
- Deep understanding of exchange microstructure, order books, and real time decision systems.
- Ability to reason quantitatively and empirically with large datasets.
- Solid understanding of statistical modeling or time series methods.
- Experience working directly with live trading systems or real time research frameworks.
Preferred:
- Prior work on quoting engines, pricing libraries, or exchange MM platforms.
- Experience in high throughput environments using colocation, fast data feeds, and custom connectivity.
- Knowledge of risk management across OTC and exchange venues.
- Cross asset exposure: crypto, futures, options, rates, FX, equities, or commodities.
- Proven revenue contribution or strategy ownership in a previous role.
Benefits
- Rare chance to influence the design of a new exchange trading platform backed by an already successful market making team.
- High ownership: from research to deployment to optimization.
- Collaborative culture that merges quantitative rigor with fast iteration.
- Competitive compensation aligned with performance and impact.
- Flexibility to work across products and build multi asset expertise.
Selby Jennings
From Investment Banking, Risk Management, Quantitative Trading, and Insurance, to Investment Management, Sales & Trading, Technology, and Wealth Management, Selby Jennings supports the world’s largest financial institutions to revolutionary fintech start-ups with all their hiring needs as a leading Financial Sciences and Services talent partner. If you would like to talk to us about your current talent needs, please request a call back here and one of our specialist consultants will call you back to discuss your hiring needs: https://www.selbyjennings.com/request-a-call-back
New York, NY