This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced HFT practitioner with a proven track record of designing, deploying, and scaling systematic trading algorithms in ultra-low-latency environments.
The Role
- Lead the build out of a quantitative HFT team, including hiring, mentoring, and technical direction.
- Design, develop, and productionize systematic trading algorithms in highly competitive, low-latency markets.
- Work across global exchanges with connectivity in US, APAC, and Europe, leveraging existing low-latency infrastructure.
- Oversee strategy research, implementation, and continuous optimization across the full trading lifecycle.
- Collaborate closely with trading, technology, and infrastructure teams to ensure performance at microsecond and nanosecond levels.
- Operate in a pure HFT / systematic environment (non-discretionary).
Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in high-frequency or ultra-low-latency trading.
- Demonstrated success building and running HFT strategies, not discretionary trading.
- Prior experience leading or scaling quant teams in a production trading environment.
- Strong understanding of market microstructure and exchange connectivity.
- Background in traditional financial markets (equities, futures, options, FX, ETFs, fixed income); crypto experience is not required.
- Comfortable working with microsecond latency, including exposure to FPGA-based or hardware-accelerated systems (beneficial, not mandatory).