Quantitative Researcher - Options Market Making

Wolverine Trading is a financial trading firm focused on market making and liquidity provision. The Quantitative Researcher will conduct research and experimentation in the US Equity Options Market, develop production testing pipelines, analyze trading data, and support feature and strategy enhancements.

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