Quantitative Analyst - Risk

Description:

Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets research. We are seeking a Quant Analyst - Risk for our team in Gurugram. Graviton trades across a multitude of asset classes and trading venues using a gamut of concepts and techniques ranging from time series analysis, filtering, classification, stochastic models, pattern recognition to statistical inference analysing terabytes of data to come up with ideas to identify pricing anomalies in financial markets.

As a Quant Analyst - Risk you will be responsible

• Work as a team with senior traders to operate and implement/improve our automated trading strategies.
• Analysing production trades and developing ideas to improve our trading strategies.
• Implement monitoring tools which highlight potential issues in the production strategies.
• Write comprehensive and scalable scripts in both C++ and python analysing production strategies for risk
• attribution, performance break-ups along various buckets and so on.
• Build ‘cool’ scalable post-trade systems analysing multitude of statistics across all production strategies.
• Implementing tools for analysing Market Data centrally across various exchanges.
• Managing deployments and release cycle, with working along with a senior trader.

Requirements :

• Possess a degree in a highly analytical field, such as Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science from top-ranked universities
• 3+ years of experience in Python, Shell/Bash scripting.
• Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools
• Basic programming and scripting (Python/Shell) skills
• Strong problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Have a strong work ethics
• Mentorship experience in guiding junior developers.

Benefits:

Our open and collaborative work culture gives you the freedom to innovate and experiment. Our cubicle free offices, non-hierarchical work culture and insistence to hire the very best creates a melting pot for great ideas and technological innovations. Everyone on the team is approachable, there is nothing better than working with friends!

Our perks have you covered.

• Competitive compensation
• Annual international team outing
• Fully covered commuting expenses
• Best-in-class health insurance
• Delightful catered breakfasts and lunches
• A well-stocked kitchen
• 4 week annual leaves along with market holidays
• Gym and sports club memberships
• Regular social events and clubs
• After work parties