Quantitative Trader - Equity Options

Job Description

IMC is seeking a Quantitative Trader to join its Equity Options team in Chicago. The team has expanded its scope to include more symbols, creating new challenges and opportunities. The role involves a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling, and algorithm development, with close collaboration between traders, quants, and developers.

The Quantitative Trader will maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies and will have responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward.

Responsibilities:

• Maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies
• Responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful

Requirements:

• Experienced equity option trader with at least 3 years’ experience
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science
• Proven ability to act and perform successfully in a fast moving and high-pressured environment
• Passion for learning; you are driven to succeed, you work well individually and, in a team, to get results
• Computer programming is desirable (Python, C/C++, Java, Malab, SQL)
• Highly analytical, constantly enhancing your strategies to improve the quality of trades, pinpoint missed opportunities, and identify new trading ideas and products

IMC offers:

• Discretionary bonus
• Benefits, including paid leave and insurance