Quantitative Trader - Equity Options

Our US Equity Options team has traditionally focused on highly liquid stocks but has expanded in scope to many more symbols. As a result, we have a wide range of new and exciting problems to solve. We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we’re currently working to improve our options pricing; investigating new models and improving our existing framework. IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies
• Responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Experienced equity option trader with at least 3 years’ experience
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science
• Proven ability to act and perform successfully in a fast moving and high-pressured environment
• Passion for learning; you are driven to succeed, you work well individually and, in a team, to get results
• Computer programming is desirable (Python, C/C++, Java, Malab, SQL)
• Highly analytical, constantly enhancing your strategies to improve the quality of trades, pinpoint missed opportunities, and identify new trading ideas and products