Quantitative Trading and Research Operations Developer

Graham Capital Management L.P. (collectively with its affiliates Graham) is an alternative investment manager founded in 1994 by Kenneth G. Tropin. Specializing in discretionary and quantitative macro strategies Graham is dedicated to delivering strong uncorrelated returns across a wide range of market environments. As one of the industrys longest-standing global macro and trend-following managers Graham remains committed to innovation evolving its strategies through a robust investment technology and operational infrastructure. Graham harnesses the synergies between its discretionary and quantitative trading businesses to offer a broad suite of complementary alpha strategies each built on the principles of thoughtful portfolio construction active risk management and diversification by design. Graham invests significant proprietary capital alongside its clients including global institutions endowments foundations family offices sovereign wealth funds investment management advisors and qualified individual investors reinforcing alignment of interests across all strategies.

The foundation of Grahams sustainability and success is the experience and contributions of its people. The firm seeks to cultivate talent encourage the diversity of ideas and respect the contributions of turn each employee shares in the responsibility of strengthening those around them.

Description

Graham is seeking an early-career developer to join our Quantitative Trading and Research Operations team which sits within our broader Quantitative Strategies department. The successful candidate will support the Quantitative Strategies department by developing maintaining and refactoring code used in research and trading with a particular focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of existing programs. This individual will work closely with researchers and follow established development and code review processes including regular interaction with the firms Quality Assurance Committee. The ideal candidate enjoys hands-on development troubleshooting and improving existing systems within an evolving production environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Quantitative Strategies department to develop maintain and improve code supporting research and trading activities
• Review refactor and update legacy programs to meet established coding standards and improve reliability maintainability and computational performance
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support for both existing systems and newly developed tools
• Develop and maintain test cases to validate code changes and help prevent errors and system failures
• Follow established development and code review processes working regularly with the Quality Assurance Committee and incorporating feedback from senior leaders across Technology and Data
• Analyze system financial and computational performance and execute trades
• Support engineering initiatives related to trading system implementation computational resource utilization build and deployment processes containerization and evaluation of cloud computing

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field
• Strong Python skills
• Strong program design fundamentals and refactoring experience
• Knowledge of CI/CD process
• Comfortable working in the command line on Unix
• Comfortable using version control such as Git
• General familiarity with PowerShell
• Familiarity with SQL and other enterprise database structures
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Coursework in cybersecurity is a plus
• Familiarity with cloud compute and general infrastructure design is a plus
• Knowledge of R and MATLAB and familiarity with writing test cases is a plus
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic fast-paced environment

This role requires commuting into our Rowayton CT office Mondays through Fridays.

Base Salary Range

The anticipated salary range for this position is $90000 to $125000. The anticipated range is based on information as of the time this post was generated and does not include any discretionary bonus or benefits (see eligibility below). The applicable annual salary or hourly rate paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors including without limitation the nature and extent of prior experience skills and qualifications. This wage range may be modified in the future.

In addition the employee who fills this role will be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus as well as a wide array of benefit programs such as medical and life insurance 401(K) plans and access to other healthcare programs.

Notes:

No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus benefits or any other form of compensation that a particular employee may be eligible for remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at Grahams sole discretion consistent with the law.

Other

Graham is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to their race color religious creed gender age national origin ancestry alienage citizenship status handicap disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy childbirth or other related conditions military status genetic information or any other personal characteristics protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including hiring placement promotion layoff termination transfer leave of absence and compensation.

Graham offers health benefits to eligible full-time U.S. employees including medical dental vision life and disability insurance as well as other voluntary benefits such as spending accounts (HSA and FSA) and a profit contribution retirement plan. All employees also receive paid vacation and sick leave. Benefits eligibility is dependent upon a variety of factors including employee classification and applicable waiting periods. Benefits are subject to change and may differ for non-U.S. roles.

pregnancy childbirth or other related conditions military status genetic information or any other personal characteristics protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including hiring placement promotion layoff termination transfer leave of absence and compensation.