Tuesday, December 28, 2010

WPF Developer / Prop Trading Firm OR Large Financial Firm NYC (Prefer Midlevel - but WILL Junior or Senior)

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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100-125K base +bonus (in case of mid level person)*

125-150K base +bonus (in case of senior level person)*

*client open to hiring mid or senior level developer depending on
person and how it all adds up.

Top Financial in NYC is looking for C# GUI developer
to build the front ends to their trading systems. The prop trading
firm trades equities and equity options via stat arb and high
frequency strategies and amm. It will definitely be a Windows (NOT WEB
or ASP.NET) GUI Solution, but whether it will be a Winforms or WPF
solution is up to the developer who is hired. The firm is currently
using Winforms. They are open to hiring someone who is mid level (3-5
years of experience), person must be able to interface directly with
end users of GUI (Traders, Quants) and define requirements and then
design and develop the solution.

Former Citigroup CEO Admits 'only 25 percent of needed changes have been enacted.'

“We continue to listen to the same people whose errors in judgment were central to the problem,” said John Reed, 71, a former co-chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc., who estimated only 25 percent of needed changes have been enacted. “I’m astounded because we basically dropped the world’s biggest economy because of an error in bank management.

Lobbyists and various shady characters win.

Who from Lehman will be prosecuted or ever go to jail???

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Vegas By The Sea?

"Does that mean Florida is destined to become the next Nevada? Gambling is indeed expanding in the Sunshine State. The poker change came on the heels of a deal struck between the legislature and the Seminoles to give the tribe exclusive rights, for five years, to spread blackjack to most of its seven reservations — an arrangement that guarantees the recession-ravaged state at least $1 billion in revenue. Higher stakes poker rooms are now sprouting up, not just at Indian casinos but also at more traditional Florida gambling sites like dog tracks, jai alai frontons and thoroughbred horse tracks called "racinos." Although the sites still often set buy-in maximums, the poker games these days can sometimes require a minimum bet of $50 and produce pots reaching the tens of thousands of dollars."

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Systems Engineer, Trading Firm (NYC, Midtown)

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Solid knowledge of scripting languages (BASH, Perl, Ruby, etc)
Ensure availability and performance of Production trading systems
during market hours
Improve stability and fault tolerance of our systems and network infrastructure
Develop scripts to batch and automate systems tasks
Ownership of our systems infrastructure across multiple data centers,
including hardware, networking (switches, routers and cross
connects/private lines/VPN tunnels), OS, backend services (Kerberos,
AFS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, package repositories, etc), storage and security
Maintain, create and distribute internal packages for our Linux
systems to deploy common settings and tools

Comp: Open

Friday, December 24, 2010

Python Developers / C++ Developers - Top Tier Financial Firm(Chicago)

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Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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$$ All levels from Junior to Expert Level

Note to Recruiters: Team expects to hire at least 6 developers in 2011, most in Q1.

Team wants to hire at all levels, junior, mid level and senior level. This team is developing the core trading platform for the firm which will cover all asset classes and this team is responsible for all aspects of the system from the low level infrastructure code to the data technology to the front end, but the bulk of the development which needs to be done is the server side development - the core business logic to the core systems. This is a team which only hires best of breed talent, whether junior or senior level candidate, must have excellent academic and/or professional accomplishments which make them stand out.

The bulk of the development will be done in Python but there will be some C++. They are happy to hire a pure Python developer, but some C++ is desirable and they will not hire a pure C++ developer. Financial background is not particularly critical to the job function. Candidates need to be able to show great fluency in Python. The "extras" they're really looking for though are some background with dependency graphs, python twisted, python numpy, python numeric. In general they would also like developer with experience developing large-scale, high performance systems as well as developers who have experience developing software solutions to work with very large data sets. The GUI will be developed in Python WX which is also a plus. This may show up in math people or compiler people or data mining people.

Python Developers / C++ Developers - Top Tier Firm (California)

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Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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$$ All levels from Junior to Expert Level

Note to Recruiters: Team expects to hire at least 6 developers in 2011, most in Q1.

Team wants to hire at all levels, junior, mid level and senior level. This team is developing the core trading platform for the firm which will cover all asset classes and this team is responsible for all aspects of the system from the low level infrastructure code to the data technology to the front end, but the bulk of the development which needs to be done is the server side development - the core business logic to the core systems. This is a team which only hires best of breed talent, whether junior or senior level candidate, must have excellent academic and/or professional accomplishments which make them stand out.

The bulk of the development will be done in Python but there will be some C++. They are happy to hire a pure Python developer, but some C++ is desirable and they will not hire a pure C++ developer. Financial background is not particularly critical to the job function. Candidates need to be able to show great fluency in Python. The "extras" they're really looking for though are some background with dependency graphs, python twisted, python numpy, python numeric. In general they would also like developer with experience developing large-scale, high performance systems as well as developers who have experience developing software solutions to work with very large data sets. The GUI will be developed in Python WX which is also a plus. This may show up in math people or compiler people or data mining people.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

C# Developer (GUI - Winforms or WPF) Financial Company / NYC Jr - Mid Level Opening

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Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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90-125K base +bonus (depending on particular level of person hired)

Note to recruiter: This position will focus entirely on the front-end / GUI Development. The development tools will be C# with Winforms and WPF. The systems are mostly WPF at this point and preference is for developer with WPF but strong Winforms candidate will be considered. The role is for mid level developer, ideally with 4-7 years of experience. Financial experience is desired because this role will interface with trading desk, but candidates without who are exceptionally strong in all other areas will be considered. Must have strong communication skills.
Position Description

Developer on the Equity Derivatives GUI Development Team. The team is responsible for pricing and analytics system used by the Global Equity Derivatives trading desks to price products (including equity options and variance swaps), for pre-trade analytics to identify trading opportunities and for post-trade analytics to understand historical price and profitability trends. It is also used to manage market data (vol, divs, yeild curves, credit spreads), and perform data analysis (time series, scenario reports).

Responsibilities
- Work directly with trading desks to gather requirements and document specifications.
- Work directly with Strategists/Quants to integrate analytics models and deliver new analysis tools.
- Work with various frontend/middleware/backend teams to fully leverage firm infrastructure and maintain focus on developing business solutions for desks.
- Involvement in the full development lifecycle of projects.
- Work with first level support team to provide production support.
- Coordinate with global team and desks on new features and participate in driving future direction of the system

Skills Required
- Strong Strategic Client-Server Development experience (including Java and C#)
- Strong Tactical Development experience (including perl)
- Experience with design patterns, unit testing, performance/memory analysis, and n-tier architecture
- Experience of full software development life cycle
- Ability to communicate with the business units and technologists equally effectively
- Ability to coordinate with various teams to deliver projects successfully
- Strong verbal & written skills required to interact with global teams
- Highly motivated, analytical thinking individual

Skills Desired
- Knowledge of Vanilla Option/VarSwap/Convertible product pricing and risk (effects of dividends, interest rates, defaults, volatility, ...)
- Experience sitting on/working directly with trading desks.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Python Developers / C++ Developers Large Financial Company / NYC/California, or Chicago

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Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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$$ All levels from Junior to Expert Level

Note to Recruiters: Team expects to hire at least 6 developers in 2011, most in Q1.

Team wants to hire at all levels, junior, mid level and senior level. This team is developing the core trading platform for the firm which will cover all asset classes and this team is responsible for all aspects of the system from the low level infrastructure code to the data technology to the front end, but the bulk of the development which needs to be done is the server side development - the core business logic to the core systems. This is a team which only hires best of breed talent, whether junior or senior level candidate, must have excellent academic and/or professional accomplishments which make them stand out.

The bulk of the development will be done in Python but there will be some C++. They are happy to hire a pure Python developer, but some C++ is desirable and they will not hire a pure C++ developer. Financial background is not particularly critical to the job function. Candidates need to be able to show great fluency in Python. The "extras" they're really looking for though are some background with dependency graphs, python twisted, python numpy, python numeric. In general they would also like developer with experience developing large-scale, high performance systems as well as developers who have experience developing software solutions to work with very large data sets. The GUI will be developed in Python WX which is also a plus. This may show up in math people or compiler people or data mining people.

Midlevel WPF Developer (Top Financial, NYC)

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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Mid-Level WPF Developer

100-150K base +bonus (in case of mid level person)*

*client open to hiring mid or senior level developer depending on
person and how it all adds up.

Top Financial in NYC is looking for C# GUI developer
to build the front ends to their trading systems.

It will definitely be a Windows (NOT WEB
or ASP.NET) GUI Solution, but whether it will be a Winforms or WPF
solution is up to the developer who is hired. The firm is currently
using Winforms and WPF. They are open to hiring someone who is mid level (3-7
years of experience), person must be able to interface directly with
end users of GUI (Traders, Quants) and define requirements and then
design and develop the solution.

HPC (High Performance Computing) Group, Python/C++ Junior/Midlevel Developer (NYC) - Top Tier Research Group

HPC (High Performance Computing) Group, Python/C++ Junior/Midlevel
Developer (NYC) - Top Tier Research Group
THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Candidate will have an history of a academic and/or accomplishment in
scientific research programming with PYTHON and/or computational
science. Expertise must include parallel computation, scientific
computing, molecular dynamics, and large-scale data management and
analysis—but specific knowledge of any of these areas is less critical
than exceptional intellectual ability and a demonstrated track record
of achievement. The right candidate should have at least 2-5+ years of
solid programming experience with a minimum python, c++ or java as
well as a track record of management experience of overseeing
significant python based projects. Candidate can come out of a
national lab doing such projects or industry firm such as google,
yahoo, or other large users of SERVER SIDE PYTHON and supercomputing.
Willing to look at more junior candidates for other roles as well.
Comp will be ABOVE market for anybody fitting above. Looking for
around 5-6 of these people for this quarter and next.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Senior Front End Technology Guru w/ either: Flex or Silverlight/WPF Large Financial Company / NYC

Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

Will hire on temp to perm basis or full time employee.
Top tier firm expecting to be competitive so compensation is open - looking for senior person with 8+ years of experience.

Notes to recruiters:
1) Position is for a front end developer/ UI Architect with either Flex or Silverlight / WPF. Note, there is slight preference for Flex but front end design developer with skills in styling Silverlight and WPF desktop apps - especially skins/themes/css/xaml is a good substitute.
2) Will work on team with Visual Designers and Useability Engineers who will handle their responsibilities and this person will be primarily responsible for coding. That said, this position is for senior level UI Developer and they should be able to contribute to the visual design and human factors.
3) Person will be one of two FLEX/Silverlight developers in a team of roughly 20 including all developers, UX engineers and graphic artists.
4) This UI Development team serves all businesses within the firm which translates to dozens of different businesses/clients/projects thus there will be a lot of variety of work.
5) Financial Services experience NOT required.
6) Position is for someone who is hard core Flex Coder, they are using Flex version 3 and in process of moving to vs 4. The position does NOT require Java (which is typically asked by Flex developers).
7) Person MUST have experience developing large, complex UI's with many (ideally tens or hundreds) of screens, lots of data which dynamically updates the applications and user when entered (as opposed to just being a data store).
8) Person must have application framework experience, not just be coder. Must know best practices in software development, eg: developing highly reusable code.
9) Incidentals: Must have experience with style sheets and skin.

Job Spec:

Join an internal user experience consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company. This is not a code monkey job, we’re looking for tech leadership.

You will…
Advise clients on technology strategy
Collaboratively design the application
Develop AJAX, FLEX, Silverlight/WPF and Windows Presentation framework interfaces
Maintain a UI component library


You have…
Passion about good design
Experience with complex application design
Completely comfortable with AJAX technologies, particularly EXT & Prototype
Top notch Flex skills: AS3, Lightstreamer, etc
Knowledge or willingness to learn Windows Presentation Framework (for desktop applications)
Minimum 3 years of experience working as a front end developer
Code & designs to show us

Would be great if you had…
Experience with interactive agency
Financial Services industry experience
Good documentation skills

Saturday, December 18, 2010

High Frequency Trader/ Strategist - Cash Equities Prop Trading Company/ NYC

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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High Frequency Trader/ Strategist - Cash Equities
Prop Trading Company/ NYC

Successful Prop Trading firm is looking to hire a Cash Equities High Frequency Trader to start this desk/ business for the firm. The firm is already successful in other, related forms of automated equity and equity options trading and they would like someone who has successful background in HF Cash Equities to take ownership of this desk/business for the firm. The ideal peson will have the high level market knowledge, experience and maturity to take ownership of this business for the firm and help grow the business, eventually hiring and leading others. Person should have at least three years of experience as a High Frequency Trader, but more is better. The firm is medium size and has centralized, collaborative environment and has a very fast platform to accommodate speed sensitive strategies.

The firm will offer a base and bonus or base and commission depending on the person.

Quantitative Programmer, C++ Prop Trading Company, NYC

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Prop Trading firm specializing in Automated Market Making (AMM) in Options is looking for Quantitative Programmer to join the team. This company of less than five people is backed by large successful parent company. The team is already live and trading. The core systems are already developed and they're looking for Quantitative Developer with strong expertise in C++ to take over the quantitative IT systems, eg: pricing server and continue to enhance and support the products. Person MUST HAVE strong C++ and educational and/or professional backround in Math, ideally Masters or PhD in Math and some experience implementing and supporting complex analytics.

The hiring manager is ideally looking for quantitative programmer who can also fill role of Quantitative Strategist where they will work side by side with the trader for the desk to improve existing strategies as well as help to create new strategies.

Compensation is negotiable, client is expecting to pay market or better on base with a discretionary bonus which is directly and truly tied to pnl of the desk.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Quant Researcher, Tel Aviv - Top Financial

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2010 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Quant Researcher:

Position in Tel Aviv; design computer-based models to predict movements of worldwide stock markets and financial markets. Candidates NEED NOT have prior knowledge of financial markets but must have a strong interest in learning about stock markets and financial markets. Our highly accomplished senior staff will provide the new hires with mentoring and guidance to help them succeed.

Job requirements:

- Graduated with Cum Laude or higher honors in bachelor’s degree from Technion, Tel Aviv University or Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in a highly analytical field, such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or any other field that is highly analytical

- Preferably have or will soon have a Master or PhD degree from one of Israel's best universities

- Have a research scientist mindset, i.e., be a deep thinker, creative, persevering, smart, a self-starter, etc.

- Be competent in a programming language (C++ or C)

- Understand English

- Have a strong interest in learning about worldwide financial markets

- Have a strong work ethic

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

What To Avoid For A Strong Resume or Linkedin Profile?

"If you're like the majority of LinkedIn users, the words "motivated," "team player," and "innovative" probably appear in your profile. According to a report put out by the business social networking site, these are some of the most-used terms on the profiles of LinkedIn's 85 million users.

These terms are so overused and general they may have lost their impact, said DJ Patil, LinkedIn's chief data scientist and the lead on the report.

LinkedIn's analytics team drew up a list of 40 common professional buzzwords and then ranked them in order of frequency on member profiles."

For UBS bankers, a head-to-toe style guide as precise as a Swiss watch

"The Swiss banking giant UBS has released a dress code that mandates fingernail length, when women should apply perfume, and even the quality of a banker's underwear.

A new UBS dress code that was published in the Swiss media – and picked up today in France to great amusement in Paris – outlines dozens of pages of personal appearance management that's more fine-tuned than a Swiss watch.

The regulations designate a 1.5 millimeter maximum fingernail length for men, suggests that female bankers wear makeup and put on perfume directly after showering and not after lunch, advocates that shoes be changed daily to bring greater levels of “peace and serenity,” and mandates employee underwear that is skin-toned and “always made of superior quality textiles."

We are HIRING: Sr Low Latency Developer/Software Developer/Engineer, Top Financial Firm, CT

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Successful candidate will join a team of developers to design and
develop low latency trading solutions for the trading of financial
instruments worldwide.

Must have strong experience in c++/unix with good
knowledge of socket and multithreaded programming.

Familiarity with
perl is helpful.

Trading System Development experience:

(e.g. Market Data, automated trading, smart routing, exchange connectivity) not
necessary but is a bonus. Position primarily located in CT.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Senior Designer / Creative Director Aka: Visual or Graphic Designer/Manager Large Financial Company/ NYC

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Note to recruiters: Have person show you portfolio up front. They should have one ready on web or on document they can email. The client will look at portfolio up front to make sure person is doing work which is equally complex, rich and attractive. If not, that's the end of the interview process.

Compensation is open - team is looking for senior person with 12+ years experience to take a hands-on leadership role for a team of 3 people.
Top tier firm expecting to pay market for this level of experience and responsibility.

Client will hire on contract to perm basis or immediate full time employment depending on person.

Summary:
1) Person will be member of 11 person UI development team while leading team of 3 visual designers.
2) Team develops and supports applications for dozens of internal businesses thus there is a lot of variety of work.
3) Must be hands on expert with Adobe Suite of tools.
4) This position is at tier one company on a team developing large, complex front-end solutions, thus person must come out of similar company/environment.
5) Person must have management experience - capable of both making presentations to internal clients and be able to mentor and delegate tasks to a team of three.
6) Person must have a portfolio which demonstrates the level of work required.
7) Financial Services NOT required.
8) Person must be hands on manager - will leverage themselves as hands on coder.

Job Description/ Requirements:
A leading Financial Services company is looking for an outstanding graphic designer to work on highly interactive applications. Join a team of 11 user experience analysts in an internal consultancy.
Requirements
- Experience as a Visual Designer within a client or an agency environment. You will have worked on a diverse range of projects.
- Ability to design rich internet applications, including charting, forms, and data tables
- Good technical skills with Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
- Good communication and interpersonal skills that enable you to understand and interpret a brief to deliver an outstanding solution.
- Minimum 10 years experience

A portfolio of sample work must be reviewed before an interview will be scheduled

Senior Front End Technology Guru (AKA FLEX Architect & Developer) Large Financial Company / NYC

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Will hire on temp to perm basis or full time employee.
Top tier firm expecting to be competitive so compensation is open - looking for senior person with 8+ years of experience.

Notes to recruiters:
1)Position is for a Flex Architect and coder.
2) Will work on team with Visual Designers and Useability Engineers who will handle their responsibilities and this person will be primarily responsible for coding. That said, this position is for senior level UI Developer and they should be able to contribute to the visual design and human factors.
3) Person will be one of two FLEX developers in a team of roughly 20 including all developers, UX engineers and graphic artists.
4) This UI Development team serves all businesses within the firm which translates to dozens of different businesses/clients/projects thus there will be a lot of variety of work.
5) Financial Services experience NOT required.
6) Position is for someone who is hard core Flex Coder, they are using Flex version 3 and in process of moving to vs 4. The position does NOT require Java (which is typically asked by Flex developers).
7) Person MUST have experience developing large, complex UI's with many (ideally tens or hundreds) of screens, lots of data which dynamically updates the applications and user when entered (as opposed to just being a data store).
8) Person must have application framework experience, not just be coder. Must know best practices in software development, eg: developing highly reusable code.
9) Incidentals: Must have experience with style sheets and skin.

Job Spec:

Join an internal user experience consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company. This is not a code monkey job, we’re looking for tech leadership.

You will…
Advise clients on technology strategy
Collaboratively design the application
Develop AJAX, FLEX, and Windows Presentation framework interfaces
Maintain a UI component library


You have…
Passion about good design
Experience with complex application design
Completely comfortable with AJAX technologies, particularly EXT & Prototype
Top notch Flex skills: AS3, Lightstreamer, etc
Knowledge or willingness to learn Windows Presentation Framework (for desktop applications)
Minimum 3 years of experience working as a front end developer
Code & designs to show us

Would be great if you had…
Experience with interactive agency
Financial Services industry experience
Good documentation skills

Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives

By LOUISE STORY

On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan.

The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. They also share a common secret: The details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential.

Drawn from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the bankers form a powerful committee that helps oversee trading in derivatives, instruments which, like insurance, are used to hedge risk."

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Senior Python Developer/Manager, NYC

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Candidate will have an history of a academic and/or accomplishment in scientific research programming with PYTHON and/or computational science. Expertise must include parallel computation, scientific computing, molecular dynamics, and large-scale data management and analysis—but specific knowledge of any of these areas is less critical than exceptional intellectual ability and a demonstrated track record of achievement. The right candidate should have at least 10 years of solid programming experience with a minimum python, c++ or java as well as a track record of management experience of overseeing significant python based projects. Candidate can come out of a national lab doing such projects. Willing to look at more junior candidates for other roles as well, but most of above shall apply minus the management.

Pay: 300k or more is possible for the RIGHT technically savvy and interpersonally versed candidate.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

C# Midlevel/Sr Developer NYC Top Financial NYC

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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This role is for a mid level Analyst Programmer to work on the Credit
eTrading Development Team. The team is responsible creating a global,
strategic electronic trading system for client, broker and exchange
trading.



Job Background/context:



We are an electronic trading technology team tasked with creating a
strategic global electronic trading system for cash and derivatives
serving client and broker markets. As a member of the team, the
candidate will have the opportunity to work with other highly
motivated and skilled team members, and work closely with business
representatives in a fast paced environment dedicated to delivering
business value and to enhancing our competitive edge.



Credit ETrading Technology is seeking a senior C# UI developer to join
a team working with the latest in distributed enterprise application
technologies, to help build out our electronic trading platform. The
developer will be working closely with traders and other users and
responsible for designing, implementing and enhancing our user
interfaces.



Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement screens for the eTrading user interface

• Implement efficient applications to maximize resource
usage on the desktops

• Work closely with java server developers to drive UI functionality

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to the team

• Participate in all phases of application development



Key Relationships:

• Work closely with traders and business people to collect
requirements

• Interact with other eTrading groups such as, Rates and
equities eTrading

• Work closely with core Trader WorkStation UI team

Development Value:



This role would open career opportunities for the successful
individual to establish their profile in the Global Credit eTrading
organisation and within the technology community.

The credit desk trades cash and derivatives globally covering
investment grade, high yield and emerging markets. It provides an
opportunity in investment banking to work closely with the business to
provide systematic trading application solutions and to gain business
knowledge of various credit products.



Person Specification

Knowledge/Experience:



• Required: 5+ years of experience in user interface design and coding

• Required: 2+ years developing C# .net user interface
design and coding using WinForms

• Required: Strong grasp of fundamental computer science
concepts: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and object
oriented design

• Required: Bachelor degree in computer science or related fields

• Required: at least 2 years experience working in fixed
income eTrading or front office trading applications

• Required: Excellent communications skills

• Required: Ability to collect and document requirements
directly from the trader community

• Required: Experience with pub/sub messaging mechanisms
such as TIB RV or EMS

• Nice to have: WPF experience

• Nice to have: Unix experience Skills:

• Proficient in C# and WinForms

• Strong knowledge of Windows

Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in computer science or related fields.



Competencies

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Highly organized with attention to detail

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

QUANT & DEVELOPER –EVALUATED PRICING Financial Company / NYC

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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150-200K Total Comp (Depending on level)

This position is in the Research and Development team and this opening is for someone who is roughly equal parts Quant and Developer, although it's more important for person to have academic background in Math. Person will develop mark to market and pricing algorithms for all products, especially Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD's). Person will also be responsible for the implementation and integration which requires C++.

Job Description:

* Research, implement and maintain mark-to-market pricing models for various securities including bonds and options.
* Work closely with the application and market specialists to produce models that capture the current state of the market as closely as possible.
* Work with application developers and market specialists on integration, testing and rollout of the product to clients.

Qualifications

* Advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Finance or related field. A PhD is highly desirable.
* Hands-on experience with C/C++ Quantitative Development. Experience with MATLAB, Mathematica or R is a plus.
* Solid understanding of statistical, financial and econometric models, as well as estimation and calibration techniques.
* Strong problem formulation and problem solving skills with particular emphasis on ill-conditioned and loosely defined problems.
* Strong communication skills and ability to work in a multi-team environment.
* Experience with handling large scale data sets.
* Proven track record of working in a fast-paced real-time delivery environment.

SR. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (C++) – DERIVATIVE APPLICATIONS

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Large Financial Company/ NYC

120-200K Total Compensation (Depending on level)
Must have at least 3 years experience, ideally 5-10 years

Full Description:

The Company

The Role
The Derivatives Application group is seeking a hands-on technologist with in-depth knowledge of interest rate derivatives or structured notes or convertible bonds. The candidate will have significant experience developing systems involving securities specifications and structuring tools, utilizing market data, pricing model valuations and risk systems. The group is rapidly growing and expanding its coverage into the pricing and structuring of exotic swaps, caps and floors, range accruals, asset swaps, structured notes, volatility sensitive products and convertible bonds. The person in this role will work with developers, quants, business, clients and some of the best people in the industry to write the applications that feed the markets.

Responsibilities
- Design, code, implement, and test new features and modules in Bloomberg's interest rate, structured notes or convertible bonds applications.
- Work with product management to translate and understand accurately product specifications.
- Project management including scheduling, budgeting, milestone verification, risk management, and project status reporting.
- Responsible for bug fixing issues with the software applications.
- Mentoring junior developers.

Qualifications
- Strong and extensive C++/C/UNIX development skills.
- Experience designing and developing financial application UI's.
- Experience with industry standard tools for code coverage, debugging, performance profiling, memory management, and code coverage. For example dbx, Purify, Quantify
- Experience with at least one source code management tool such as CVS, Clearcase, Perforce, etc
- Good understanding of products such as vanilla swaps, FRAs, caps, floors, swaptions, range accruals, inflation based swap products, property derivatives and convertible bonds.
- 2+ years of designing and developing software to structure, analyze and price interest rate derivatives
- 5+ years of professional software development
- Strong communication skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Sr C++ Software Engineer Large Financial Company/ NYC

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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120-200K Total Comp (Depending on Level)
Minimum 3 years experience, ideally 5-10)


Note to recruiters: This position is for hard core C++ coders. Not low level (although this is not bad) but hard core application level coder.

This is the sub team within Research and Development Organization which develops software in C++ for three main functions: Pricing, Risk and Structuring. Main businesses supported are Interest Rate and OTC Derivatives.

This is good position/group for C++ developers at a bank or another financial company in a middle or back office group wanting to get exposure to front office functions: pricing, risk, structuring. Note: this is a C++ development team which focuses on development of applications and not quantitative modeling. It's also good position for non-industry C++ developers who recently completed a financial math program who would like to transition into the more business facing development. And certainly it's a good stepping stone into other more business facing career paths.

In general they prefer candidates who have an advanced degree in math, physics or similar, ideally a PhD but MS in highly relevant major like computational or financial math may suffice and person must have strong C++ for application development and quantiative development (implementing/optimizing analytics).

Friday, December 3, 2010

Blind Trader at JPM

Now is only the people with vision can be as good :)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Senior C++ Developer for Financial Technology Firm (Must have OMS Experience)

Senior C++ Developer for Financial Technology Firm (Southern USA)
NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

Finder's fees can be offered for anybody you can recommend that YOU KNOW (providing contact info is a start) and obviously they MUST BE QUALIFIED and get interviewed and HIRED.
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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Company Overview
The company is a successful and proven international financial technology company specializing in high frequency proprietary trading and order execution services. We have offices in many countries, being recognized worldwide as one of the industry’s leaders. With a focus on innovation, achievement, and integrity, we are recognized as a leader in our space and take pride in serving the interests of both our traders and colleagues.


Position Description
Take ownership of existing Order Management System (OMS) for firm’s high frequency trading business. This system is responsible for the entire lifecycle of an order and is the cornerstone for the software suite. The developer will initially take over legacy code base and provide technical support to traders, strategists, and risk managers. This developer, working with senior technologists, will also play a key role in the evolution and industrialization of this module to fit within our proprietary trading studio. This is a great role for that bright and energetic person wanting to join other professionals who are currently developing cutting edge technology. In addition to the candidate receiving excellent compensation and benefits, s/he will be challenged and grow professionally in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment.

Technical Experience:
· Strong expertise with C++/STL/Boost on Unix / Windows
· In-depth knowledge of TCP / Multicast / UDP / Multithreading
· Database Knowledge: MSSQL, Sybase ,MySQL
· Strong de-bugging and performance enhancement skills
· Knowledge and Experience with C# / .Net / Java / Object Oriented Programming / Design Patterns a plus
· Experience building OMS/EMS / risk servers / execution connectivity a plus
· Understanding of CEP engines /scripting /scanning a plus
· 3+ year’s similar experience with an undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or engineering

Personal Attributes:
· Team player with strong interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
· Ability to work with and possibly lead team members located off-shore
· Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
· Willingness to take on tasks both big and small
· Excellent time management and organization skills
· Pro-active thinker with the ability to spot problems before they arise

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

High Frequency Fixed Income Quant (NYC OR LONDON, Top Trading Firm)

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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DO NOT SUBMIT YOURSELF FOR THIS ROLE UNLESS YOU HAVE EXACTLY AS BELOW!!!

2 - 7 years relevant experience in HF WITH EMPHASIS IN FIXED INCOME

Flawless academic record (top school, top GPA, masters/PhD degree at minimum)

Must have excellent/STRONG programming skills & BACKGROUND - MAINLY IN C++/IMPLEMENTATION.

Description:

He/she will work with a tight experienced team conducting HF in fixed income U.S. based. Opportunity to trade Europe and Asia fixed income is a medium term possibility.

Comp:
125-150 plus bonus upside.
Health plan, etc etc

OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN LONDON OR NYC!!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Business Systems Analyst (Systems Integration) Large Financial Company/ NYC

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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125K base +bonus

Notes from hiring manager: Manager wants a technically savvy BA or a Systems Business Analyst with strong Systems Integrations experience/knowledge. Wants to fill role at Associate Level with candidate who has 5-10 years of experience. Person will be part of team of Business and Business Systems Analysts and PM's. First two projects will focus around: 1) Reg W and 2) Reg O and U, dealing with legal and compliance IT mandates (implementing data solutions which will enable firm to do transaction level screening). Person does not have to have Regulatory or Compliance knowledge (but it's a big plus) but they do have to have general financial industry and trading systems knowledge and manager is ready to train them on the regulatory and compliance concepts -but person has to be a technically savvy BA with strong systems integrations experience. Role will be 80% IT / Systems Integration and 20% business side involving regulatory and compliance.

Position Description:

Work with the Bank's Retail Banking, Compliance, Operations, and various other business and technology units to refine business requirements, define functional specifications, and provide implementation/integration project management around regulatory projects. The program manager will be responsible for project management and business analysis across Retail Banking regulatory technology, contributing to the successful implementation of regulatory projects by ensuring that all the required elements are appropriately understood, documented, owned, and actioned.

Specific responsibilities include:
• Coordinate business unit subject matter expert meetings in order to solicit and cross-reference business and functional requirements
• Document business and functional requirements, including workflow, business rules, and use cases
• Define/document application infrastructure and architecture
• Develop and execute detailed project plans based on functional specifications
• Oversee technology/application integration and implementation
• Assist with QA/Testing to convert use cases to test cases

Must Have:
• Minimum 3-5 years in a large complex banking organization or major consulting organization
• Familiarity with the banking regulatory environment (i.e. OCC regulations, OTS regulations, Fed regulations, Regulatory reporting, FFIEC/FDICIA)
• Outstanding relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications
• Self-motivated and can work independently as well as in a team environment
• Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strongly detail oriented, organized, and analytical

Nice to Have:
• MBA
• Technical background in integration, development, and/or infrastructure
• Experience in accounting practices and terminology
• Experience with specific Fed regulations such as Regs O, U, and W
• Experience with regulatory reporting (Call Report, FR2900, TIC Report, FRY-9, etc.), AML practices, OFAC screening, etc.
• Experience in technology concerning some/all of the following banking products: Non-Purpose Loans, Securities Based Lending, Commercial Lending, Mortgage Lending, Credit Cards, CRA/Small Business Lending

C++ Developer (low level, multiprocessor, low latency) Top Financial NYC

C++ Developer (low level, multiprocessor, low latency) Top Financial NYC
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Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Job Description:

Senior C++ Developer X3

Large Financial Company / NYC

$$ is open - top tier company wants top tier talent

Note: This is the team developing applications and data solutions for company's core trading platform. The team is undertaking a major new development initiative. The team will only hire people with significant academic and professional accomplishments. Must have a Computer Science degree from top Comp Sci program, ideally Masters or PhD. The team is open to hiring a recent PhD grad with a few years of experience or a senior developer with 8+ years of relevant development experience in large-scale, high performance, robust C++ based software solutions. Ideally person would also have experience developing solutions for handling large amounts of data. The team would prefer to hire someone from outside the financial industry who has stronger computer science fundamentals and stronger interest in technology.

Position Description:

This senior software developer position with Enterprise Application Infrastructure group of the bank includes responsibilities for developing and supporting core C++ application toolkits and components for use throughout the business.
The focus of the role is the development of the C++ libraries which are used to build applications across the firm, the firms next generation C++ infrastructure, as well as further developing the functionality of our existing systems
The successful candidate should have performance optimization experience, in-depth knowledge of low-latency networking and multicore scalability.

The products developed by this team are used across the firm. This means that the role requires a developer with strong technical skills and the experience to understand the implications of their design decisions and good understanding of current best practices in application architecture, software design and code development.

The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Design and development of C++ libraries in collaboration with global team.
- Maintenance and support of existing C++ libraries.
- Identification of current technology gaps and potential solutions.
- Identifying the 'bleeding-edge' technologies that will form the basis of the firms next-generation systems.
-Interact with internal clients to on component requirements

Must Have:
Extensive knowledge of C++ on Linux and/or Windows.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and multicore architecture as well as low-latency networking issues.
- Track record of multi-tier application design and development in C++.
- Experience building re-usable code.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills; Broad interest in technology.
-Strong communication skills

Nice to Have:
Experience with tuning-up OS kernel is a plus

Monday, November 22, 2010

Distributed Systems Developer/C++ Top Financial Firm NYC

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Job Description:
Senior C++ Developer
Large Financial Company/ NYC

Note: Company is looking for deeply technical C++ developer with good mastery of at least most aspects of the language. Must have Comp Sci degree from top program, ideally a Masters or PhD. Must have at least 5 years of experience, but 10-15 years of experience preferred. Person must have experience developing large scale/ high performance software. Industry experience is not required.

Position Description:
Looking for an experienced C++ developer to work on the Firm's proprietary next-generation application platform. This platform, currently under development, will provide underlying infrastructure for many types of core business applications across the entire Firm's Institutional Securities division, including systems for trading, pricing, risk calculation, etc.

We will consider candidates at the ED or VP level. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience along with strong technical and communication skills; business knowledge is not required. The role is a good opportunity to work in a technically challenging environment on some large-scale problems core to the business.

Must Have:
Strong C++; strong problem-solving and analytical skills; experience in distributed systems design and development; knowledge of network protocols; good communication skills.

Should Have:
Unix/Linux experience; experience in multi-threaded programming; experience in grid computing and real-time systems a plus; knowledge of other programming languages and operating systems a plus

C++ Developer, Top Financial NYC (low level, multiprocessor, low latency)

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Job Description:

Senior C++ Developer X3

Large Financial Company / NYC

$$ is open - top tier company wants top tier talent

Note: This is the team developing applications and data solutions for company's core trading platform. The team is undertaking a major new development initiative. The team will only hire people with significant academic and professional accomplishments. Must have a Computer Science degree from top Comp Sci program, ideally Masters or PhD. The team is open to hiring a recent PhD grad with a few years of experience or a senior developer with 8+ years of relevant development experience in large-scale, high performance, robust C++ based software solutions. Ideally person would also have experience developing solutions for handling large amounts of data. The team would prefer to hire someone from outside the financial industry who has stronger computer science fundamentals and stronger interest in technology.

Position Description:

This senior software developer position with Enterprise Application Infrastructure group of the bank includes responsibilities for developing and supporting core C++ application toolkits and components for use throughout the business.
The focus of the role is the development of the C++ libraries which are used to build applications across the firm, the firms next generation C++ infrastructure, as well as further developing the functionality of our existing systems
The successful candidate should have performance optimization experience, in-depth knowledge of low-latency networking and multicore scalability.

The products developed by this team are used across the firm. This means that the role requires a developer with strong technical skills and the experience to understand the implications of their design decisions and good understanding of current best practices in application architecture, software design and code development.

The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Design and development of C++ libraries in collaboration with global team.
- Maintenance and support of existing C++ libraries.
- Identification of current technology gaps and potential solutions.
- Identifying the 'bleeding-edge' technologies that will form the basis of the firms next-generation systems.
-Interact with internal clients to on component requirements

Must Have:
Extensive knowledge of C++ on Linux and/or Windows.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and multicore architecture as well as low-latency networking issues.
- Track record of multi-tier application design and development in C++.
- Experience building re-usable code.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills; Broad interest in technology.
-Strong communication skills

Nice to Have:
Experience with tuning-up OS kernel is a plus

Thursday, November 18, 2010

RMBS Developer C++/VBA/SQL NYC - Top Financial

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Job Description

Acts in the highest level technical role as an individual contributor for the most complex computer applications and/or application initiatives. Utilizes a thorough understanding of available technology, tools, and existing designs. Works on the most complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of intangible variance factors. Plans, performs, and acts as the escalation point for the most complex platform designs, coding, and testing. Leads most complex multiple modeling, simulations, and analysis efforts. Acts as expert technical resource to programming staff in the program development, testing, and implementation process.

Basic Qualifications 10+ years application development and implementation experience.

Minimum Qualifications 5+ years experience in RMBS trading including any of agency & non-agency CMOs, ARM pass-through & specified pools, FNMA/FHLMC/GNMA TBAs & specified pass-through pools, hybrid ARMs, structured CMOs, reverse mortgages, whole loans and non-economic residuals. - 5+ years working in a capital markets trading floor environment interfacing with trading, middle office, operations, finance and risk organizations. - 1+ years experience with Bloomberg and Intex - 5+ years experience with VB, Excel/VBA, .Net, C#, SQL server, C/C++, Java, and Perl scripts - Deep understanding of mortgage prepayment/default models, and strong analytical and problem solving skills

Preferred Skills

Preferred experience with broad capital markets products including any of cash, derivatives, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, etc. - Preferred experience WinFITS. - Masters or PhD in computer science or other technical/quantitative disciplines

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Development Project Manager (FX, Consulting - Top Financial NYC)

NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Looking for Development Project Manager who will be responsible for Foreign Exchange Trading system's development and management in the Capital Markets Application and Data Services organization. This person will be a key member of the Trading Services team and will play a major role in the automation of FX Trading. The individual will manage the development of the Order Entry and Validation services with an emphasis on CICS Web Services. In addition, the individual will manage the development and the integration of existing FX trading components. The individual will be able to manage the team of developers participating in the project life cycle.

Responsibilities include:

The individual will also be responsible for full life-cycle development of the of the Web Services, including requirements gathering, design, development and documentation. The individual will work across other stakeholders for the implementation of the project. In addition, maintain the project plan and status and report to IT Management, Operations and Trading Desk.

OPPORTUNITY:

1. Develop the Foreign Exchange Trading Services platform
2. Be part of a development organization preparing to support the largest FA network in the world.
3. Work as a critical development team lead responsible for the systems supporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

1. Vast experience of more than 10 years in managing, designing, developing and delivering complex applications at major financial services firms.
2. An in-depth understanding of the critical aspects of major transactional production systems; scalability, reliability, service oriented architecture, distributed systems, etc.
3. Extensive experience in designing and developing systems in various processes.
4. Deep technical proficiency with the design of CICS applications and a working knowledge of CICS Web Services.
5. Extensive experience with message driven application design and development for mainframe applications, including MQ and CICS Web Services.
6. A good knowledge of the distributed environment and the Web Services interfaces
NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS:

1. Ability to manage both onsite and offshore development team.
2. Ability to work with business analysts, project management office, architects, infrastructure, and other developers to analyze business requirements, propose solutions, and implement those solutions.
3. A detailed understanding of off-shore development practices; decision metrics for determining when to use various sourcing models, critical success factors, standard industry practices, practice leaders in the industry, etc.
4. Experience driving change across an IT area and nurturing relationships in the process of doing do.
5. Excellent presentations skills: ability to communicate technical proposals in a clear and concise manner; individually or in front of a group. Can sense the objectives of senior management and can get a point across quickly.
6. Capability to approach problems as challenges and deal with them constructively and promote this approach to other team members at the same time.
7. Ability to set an example for team members in the following manner: hard work, a focus on client delivery, preparedness, organization, a positive attitude and respect for others.
8. Knowledge of how to effectively manage a technical team; P&L management, resource projections, etc.
9. Understanding of Equity and Fixed Income Trading systems and processes.
10. Excellent team player and ability to mentor other team members and provide guidance to succeed.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Stupidest Lawsuit Ever Has Us Suing Ourselves: Jonathan Weil

"Here’s what happened. In July the Internal Revenue Service told Freddie Mac, the congressionally chartered housing financier, that it owed $3 billion of back taxes and penalties for the years 1998 through 2005. Rather than pay up, the McLean, Virginia-based company sued the IRS on Oct. 22 in U.S. Tax Court to contest its claims.

Before Freddie Mac could do that, it had to seek written permission from its conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency. FHFA, whose mandate is supposed to include looking out for taxpayers, consented. Freddie Mac disclosed the suit last week in a footnote to its third-quarter financial report.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Here we have a government-sponsored enterprise -- which depends on Treasury’s financial support to remain solvent -- suing an arm of the Treasury Department. Some thanks this is. To date, Treasury has injected about $64 billion into Freddie Mac and collected $8.4 billion of cash dividends on its senior preferred stock in the company."

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

C# GUI Developer Prop Trading Company/ NYC

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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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100-125K base +bonus (in case of mid level person)*
125-150K base +bonus (in case of senior level person)*
*client open to hiring mid or senior level developer depending on person and how it all adds up.

Successful prop trading company in NYC is looking for C# GUI developer to build the front ends to their trading systems. The prop trading firm trades equities and equity options via stat arb and high frequency strategies and amm. It will definitely be a Windows (NOT WEB or ASP.NET) GUI Solution, but whether it will be a Winforms or WPF solution is up to the developer who is hired. The firm is currently using Winforms. They are open to hiring someone who is mid level (3-5 years of experience), but someone more senior (8+ years) is more likely to work better - person must be able to interface directly with end users of GUI (Traders, Quants) and define requirements and then design and develop the solution. Ideally person would become the GUI SME for the firm which is less than 50 people in size.

C++ Developer Prop Trading Company / Midtown

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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted. Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential... If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com

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You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie). Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

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100-130K base +bonus

Successful High Frequency Prop Trading company is looking to add a C++ developer to it's core development team which is responsible for everything concerning trading platform development and strategy simulation and implementation. Team develops on Linux; Unix is a must. The team will only interview developers with Computer Science degree from a top Comp Sci program with a high gpa with preference for advanced degree. Ideal level of experience is 2-5 years of professional experience. Person must also be able to communicate well.
Responsibilities include:
Coding fully automated trading strategies.
Building and optimizing proprietary technology assets (trading engines, research environments, ticker plants, order routing etc).
Requirements:
2-5 years professional experience
Top school, top gpa
C++ Linux
Excellent communication skills
Stellar references

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Should we really believe any 'internal system' of any company committing serious fraud is going to listen to the ones exposing it??

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took a step toward expanding its ability to reward whistleblowers after the Dodd-Frank financial rules overhaul provided greater incentives for tipsters to come forward.

SEC commissioners voted 5-0 today to propose a rule that authorizes the agency to pay whistleblowers in enforcement cases where sanctions exceed $1 million. Under the proposal, the agency could give claimants as much as 30 percent of all the money it collects when imposing fines or recouping ill-gotten gains. Awards are currently capped at 10 percent of collected money and limited to insider-trading cases.

“Whistleblowers can be a source of high-quality leads,” SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said at a meeting in Washington. “They can provide us with first-hand information about ongoing frauds that may otherwise not come to light. This type of information can be crucial to protecting investors or helping us return their funds.”

Sunday, October 31, 2010

5 Reasons Americans Are So Wrong About Major Economic Facts



"According to a new Bloomberg poll, six in ten Americans think most of the money spent to rescue banks will be lost forever. Six in ten think the economy shrunk over the past year. One in two think federal income taxes have gone up in the past two years.

Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.

In fact, most of the $245 billion TARP money spent on banks will be recovered, and the program expects to turn a small profit, according to the latest report (Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner: "The direct budget cost of the program and our full investment in the insurer AIG is likely to come in well under $50 billion.") The economy has been growing, steadily if slowly, since the summer of 2009. The Obama administration has cut taxes by more than $240 billion in the last two years, including rebate checks worth up to $800 for almost all families.

So why do two in three Americans not know this? Here are five potential culprits for American misconceptions about the economy:

1) Blame Democrats
Pollster Ann Selzer said: "The public view of the economy is at odds with the facts, and the blame has to go to the Democrats. It does not matter much if you make change, if you do not communicate change." This is a limited explanation. The idea that Democrats' communication determines the public's views on the economy assumes that everybody is sitting around listening to Democrats' press releases and speeches and sound bites. To be sure, some people are. But many Americans couldn't tell you the last time they listened meaningfully to a presidential address or gave a hoot about Harry Reid's views on Making Work Pay. It's important to communicate your achievements, but Democratic "messaging" alone isn't responsible for a nationwide 2-1 misconception of economic realities.

2) Blame the Conservatives
Public anger over the bank bailout, the rising deficit, and the apparent inability of government to turn around the economy created a power vacuum into which conservative anger rushed. The confluence of the Tea Parties, Fox News personalities, and Republican obstructionism has certainly contributed to the perception that government spending is out of control, that taxes are too damn high, and that the idea of America is caught in a downward spiral. It's reasonable to assume that a rabidly anti-bailout, anti-tax and anti-administration movement would sour Americans' negative feelings about, respectively, the bailout, taxes and the direction of the economy.

3) Blame the Media
The role of the media is to inform. So the media bears responsibility for this triumph of misinformation. But the problem with blaming "the media" is that "the media" isn't unified enough to blame. Some will ding Glenn Beck for comparing a tax-cutting administration to Nazi government takeover, and they will have a good case. Others can blame more conscientiously objective news outlets for failing to adequately communicate basic facts about the economy: Taxes were cut; the bank bailouts will turn a profit; the economy is growing. But at the same time, many news organization have done a good job of explaining those facts, over and over again.

4) Blame the Economy
Americans might be wrong, wrong, wrong, about the economy ... but does it really matter, considering how rotten the economy is? Economic production is still in a hole. Maybe effective tax rates have gone up on families who lost their home and their mortgage interest deduction. Maybe families lost a breadwinner and feel a harsher pinch from federal taxes. With one in six Americans broadly unemployed and home values crushed, perhaps it's silly to blame Americans for missing the statistical silver linings of a gloomy economy.

5) Blame People
Here's a simple culprit: us. The civic responsibility to know basic stuff about the economy ultimately falls on citizens. It might feel like the banks are still living with our tax money, or that taxes have increased or will soon, or that the economy hasn't grown in forever. But that doesn't make it right."