Data Scientist - Options Market Making

Wolverine Trading is a diversified financial institution specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. The Data Scientist will research and experiment within the US Equity Options Market by maintaining production testing pipelines, analyzing trading data, presenting results, and developing enhancements to trading features and strategies.

What you'll do:

• Gain domain expertise on US Equity Option exchange micro-structure
• Propose, run, and maintain production testing pipelines within an experimental framework
• Curate, document, and present experimentation results to trading and engineering staff
• Generate ideas for trading feature enhancement and parameter configurations through post trade analytics
• Work with large tick databases to build and maintain core datasets designed to increase team productivity and facilitate strategy enhancements

What they're looking for:

• • Background in a quantitative field
• • Knowledge of basic statistical concepts such as regression analysis
• • Experience with Python and common data science packages
• • A willingness to learn C# is required
• • An understanding of or willingness to learn about low-level details relating to networking and FGPAs
• • Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
• • Experience with object-oriented programming is a plus but not a requirement

Benefits:

• Bonus opportunity
• Generous paid time off and flexible scheduling
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits for single coverage
• Generous Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement Plans: 401K and Roth 401K
• Profit sharing plan
• Long- and short-term disability
• Free breakfast and lunch from our in-house kitchen with rotating menus (including snacks!)
• On-site gym with a subsidized membership
• Frequent company outings