nahc.io

• Design, develop and optimise high-performance C++ trading systems • Build and deploy systematic trading strategies across liquid markets • Work closely with quants and trading teams to improve execution, latency and performance • Take ownership of strategy lifecycle from research to production • Gradually gain exposure to and contribute towards market-making strategies

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news. - Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities. - Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information. - Maintain a detailed calendar of material events. - Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes. - Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources. - Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities. - Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change. - Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient. - Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system. - QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality. Qualifications - Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news. - Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process. - Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time. - Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems. - Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck). - Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics. - Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics. - Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL. - High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously. - Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately. - Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.