Quantitative Data Developer

Susquehanna technologists are at the heart of where cutting-edge technology meets the fast-paced world of trading. Our growing teams build some of the most powerful trading systems in the financial industry and solve complex problems in a constantly changing environment. From large scale computations real-time systems high performance computing to petabytes of data. By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas we design and optimise systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. Collaborating with traders and quantitative researchers our systems engineers network architects technical analysts and software developers create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

The Quant Data Team (QDT) is the data backbone for Susquehannas APAC trading. We own market data end-to-end utilizing raw market data and transforming it into clean well-modelled datasets and serving it to the quants and trading desks who depend on it. We work across the full sweep of APAC markets partnering with quantitative researchers trading desks production-pipeline teams and infrastructure to turn raw exchange feeds into the datasets that drive trading strategies.

This role can be based in either our Sydney or Hong Kong office.

What youll do

As a Quant/Python Developer in QDT you will work closely with quantitative researchers strategy developers and traders to:

• Build and maintain derived datasets and data products designing generating and regenerating the datasets quants load directly for research and strategy work.
• Source capture and curate market data handling a wide variety of exchange data formats (multicast/UDP feeds) and the firms data archive.
• Develop maintain and deploy analytical tools and data pipelines that feed research and production including scheduled pipelines and large-scale backtest compute on distributed clusters.
• Own data quality and incident response investigating missing late or anomalous data tracing root causes upstream and keeping the data accurate and timely.
• Performance-tune storage and processing improving data layout load times and throughput to handle large and varied datasets efficiently.

This is a hands-on role where youll thrive on the technical challenges and see your work used every day by experienced traders and researchers across a diverse range of instruments and markets.

• Strong Python especially the data stack (NumPy Pandas and columnar/array libraries such as Polars).
• Experience with numeric/large-scale data storage formats (e.g. HDF5 Parquet) and processing large varied datasets.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
• Solid grounding in computer networking.
• Ability to understand financial data models and mathematical algorithms.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills youll work daily with traders quantitative analysts production-pipeline and infrastructure teams and other developers often coordinating across regions.
• Experience or interest in capital markets market data probability or applying engineering solutions to these areas is a plus.

Whats in it for you :

Real Impact:As an essential member of the team your role involves supporting innovating and optimizing systems processing massive amounts of data all while ensuring high performance and stability. Youll see how your contributions towards supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologiesmake a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter faster and better.

Collaboration:You will partner closely with our Trading Quantitative Researchers Infrastructure and Strategy Developer Teams to develop and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region.

Growth: Were looking for people who are naturally curious relentless problem solvers and have the desire to continuously innovate learn and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.link

About Susquehanna:

What we do:
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad our trading desks are highly specialized allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.