Head of Quant Execution Development

We are looking for a Head of Quant Execution to lead the development of our execution algorithms across the full spectrum of exchange-traded financial products. Your work will impact the profitability of strategies across futures and equities and will constitute our competitive edge in the markets.

 

Location
London, UK (Hybrid mode with 3 days in-office requirement)

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead the distributed team of quantitative execution developers
• Maintain Teza existing execution algorithms, establish additional procedures and processes to ensure their robustness and competitive edge
• Continuously enhance and improve execution algorithms across all asset classes
• Design and conduct experiments to quantitatively evaluate the performance of different algorithms across multiple asset classes
• Lead all quantitative analysis related to trading costs across futures and equity markets, comparing them to various benchmarks

• Collect, maintain and scrutinize trading and relevant data for multi-asset asset trading, including global equities, futures, listed options, and other asset classes

 

Basic Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science/Math/Physics or similar degree 
• 5+ years of prior experience in execution, market making, or high frequency trading
• Experience in managing a team of quant researchers / leading research organization
• Proven ability and comfort working with different groups (research, technology, operations) and with colleagues of varying experience levels
• Very high attention to detail
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical abilities, with a strong problem-solving approach.

 

Nice to have Requirements

• Previous experience working with FIX
• Previous experience with quant trading
  
  

What you’ll get

• We will challenge you to grow professionally and provide freedom to create the best algorithms in finance. 
• We rely on people's autonomy, but collaborating is fundamental to our success (you’ll be a part of team Teza!). 
• Our environment helps people to master their art and have fun doing it. 
  
  

What makes you a match

• You love to code and find solutions to complex problems
• You know how to get people to listen to your ideas
• You are capable of understanding and improving the legacy codebase
• Difficult problems make you excited
• You have A LOT of passion and drive