Job Description

Role Details:



Building proprietary trading systems, our new team is a small, collegiate, and entrepreneurial department within Axi solving trading problems and finding opportunities. In the ever-changing financial markets, our trading systems must respond to market events at ever faster speeds, pricing a greater number of trading products to our clients and finding more sophisticated alphas to continually improve monetisation.



The role will involve working closely with our traders and quants to realise these ambitions of the firm to create and maintain novel trading solutions.



Requirements:


• 10+ years of professional experience in financial technology or quantitative development.
• Expertise in low latency coding (Java, C++, C).
• Proficiency with Python.
• Experience with tick databases (kdb+ and q highly preferred).
• Strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative methods, and systematic trading.
• Ability to write well architected, simple code, and continuously improve the codebase.
• Advanced investigative and data analysis skills.
• Experience in high pressure, entrepreneurial environments.
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross functional teams and stakeholders.
• Attention to detail and strong problem solving skills.

Must have:


• Experience writing low latency software in Java.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Experience working with tick databases (kdb+ and q highly preferred).
• Strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative methods, and systematic trading.
• Ability to write well architected, simple code and continually improve that codebase.
• Advanced investigative and data analysis skills.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:


• Design, develop, support, and maintain trading systems, tools, and infrastructure.
• Ensure performance and scalability of trading and research systems to unlock growth and alpha.
• Work closely with traders, quants, risk management, and the wider engineering team.
• Stay updated on industry developments, trading architectures, and the latest development techniques.
• Adhere to all Axi's policies and procedures to ensure compliance with internal processes.

Company Details:



Axi is dedicated to solving trading problems and finding opportunities within the financial markets. Our proprietary trading systems respond to market events at ever faster speeds, pricing a greater number of trading products to our clients and finding more sophisticated alphas to continually improve monetization.



Website: https://www.axi.com/int