Location: Chennai
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing algorithmic trading firm operating in the MFT and HFT space, trading across multiple asset classes. As part of their expansion, they are building a strong engineering and quantitative team in Chennai and are looking to hire a Quant Lead to drive platform development and support trading strategy optimization.
The Quant Lead will be responsible for leading the development of a high-performance algorithmic trading platform and managing a team of 15–20 engineers. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, system architecture, and team management, working closely with trading and quant teams to enable strategy performance and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end development of the algorithmic trading platform, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
- Architect and optimize low-latency backend systems for real-time trading and market data processing.
- Design and maintain high-performance Python-based backend services for real-time analytics and execution.
- Build and optimize infrastructure for large-scale, real-time data processing.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to ensure rapid and reliable releases.
- Collaborate closely with traders and quants to optimize trading strategies and execution performance.
- Drive best practices in system design, code quality, testing, and performance optimization.
- Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering team of 15–20 engineers.
- Plan tasks, define milestones, and manage delivery timelines using Zoho Projects.
- Ensure platform reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence in a production trading environment.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, with strong expertise in Python.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex, high-performance systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with trading infrastructure or derivative pricing model development or front office quant,
- Solid understanding of low-latency system design (experience in trading systems is a strong plus).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced trading environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Please note that due to the high number of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us in the next 5 business days, we regret to inform you that your application for this position was unsuccessful.