Quantitative Developer - Options Market Making

Wolverine Trading is a financial trading firm operating in the US Equity Options Market. The Quantitative Developer will support market-making analytics by building experimentation pipelines, analyzing trading data, maintaining core datasets, 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:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 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