QuantHouse is the global leader in end-to-end systematic trading solutions. Established in Chicago, New York, London and Paris, the value proposition we offer our clients -hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks and latency sensitive sell-side firms, is unique. This includes ultra low latency market data technologies, Algo trading tools and infrastructure solutions including proximity hosting.
Our ambitious Research and Development program has been the backbone of our success. Our normalization capability has been increased by 300% within the last two years. We have been named or nominated several times for our innovation in categories such as: best automated trading product, best data provider, system integration of the year and, we have won blue chip clients -Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, the London Stock Exchange, etc.
Building on the triple digit revenue growth we have achieved for three years, our 2011 prospects are extremely exciting: strong technical and functional developments of our solutions, geographical expansion, lots of brand new positions within our R&D, product, consulting and sales teams.
CV's with cover letter should be emailed to hr@quanthouse.com
NEW-YORK
LONDON
PARISWithin one of our R&D teams, you will develop our high performance market data solutions. You will be responsible for designing and developing new FeedHandlers in C++ up to providing procedures for their deployment in production.
As your expertise of our technologies and your functional knowledge increase, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of different categories of FeedHandlers (cash, derivatives / multicast, TCP, FAST, etc.). You will manage migrations of exchanges and, you will ensure a second level of support to our production and clients services teams.
You will fit well in this role if you are interested in agile development methods, pay attention to the quality of your code and like test driven development.
After graduating your MSc, your firsthand experience of C++ development –ideally in financial markets, has developed your autonomy and reliability. You like working on high performance, parallel programming, optimization and high throughput computing problems. Good interpersonal skills coupled with professional English are important to us in view of team work and technical discussions with international exchanges IT teams.
The technology is C++ for Unix/Linux, but additional skills in Windows environment would be appreciated. Any knowledge of script languages (Bash, Perl, Python, …) will be utilized.
Within our QuantFactory R&D team, you will be responsible for developing different aspects of our platform: functional ones in relation to all asset classes, mathematical to implement statistical models and highly technical to increase the product performance and scalability.
As your product expertise increases, you will be involved with our clients to provide them with expert support. You may also contribute to pre sales, training or consulting activities. You will also become familiar with SCRUM.
You will fit well in this role if you are interested in agile development methods, pay attention to the quality of your code and like test driven development.
After graduating your MSc, your firsthand experience of C# development in financial markets has developed your autonomy and reliability. Excellent interpersonal skills coupled with professional English are important to us in view of team work and international client relationships.
The technology is C# for Windows, but additional skills in C++ for Unix/Linux would be appreciated.
Within our 1st level Support team, you will take in charge client queries from their investigations, diagnoses and qualifications up to following them up with our R&D or production teams. You will especially pay attention to establishing and maintaining a close communication with the client throughout the whole support process of its query.
In light of communicating with clients and interacting with foreign stock exchanges and financial markets to explore incidents, you shall be fluent in English. You will contribute to write FAQ and technical documents as well.
After graduating your MSc, your first-hand experience in finance has sharpened your analytical skills while developing your rigor and responsiveness. Your genuine interest for capital markets will offer you the opportunity to acquire additional technical and functional competences.
You will ideally possess the following skills set: a good background in Linux/Unix (end user), Windows and networks (LAN, Internet, VPN) combined with a good command of shell UNIX scripting. Any C++ or C# knowledge would be appreciated and utilized.
As a member of our Network project team, you will be in charge of operating and expanding our Backbone infrastructure. You will therefore work on the development of our MPLS and Optical Fiber networks (Dark Fiber, SDH, WDM, and Ethernet).
You will manage new clients’ architectures under the form of projects, assessing their needs (hardware, infrastructures), designing technical specifications, configuring their link to the Backbone and providing documentations on these, up to managing technical implementations.
In view of our infrastructure and ultra-low latency technologies 24/7 availability, you will fix technical issues. You will provide a level 2/3 support in liaison with our client services team. You will also be involved in the relationship with our Datacenters and Telecom vendors.
After graduating your MSc in Computer Sciences, you have gained a minimum of 3 year experience in support or network.You want to work in a demanding environment that will make the best use of your client service orientation, attention to details and responsiveness. Fluent English is a MUST. A prior experience in Telecoms as well as any knowledge of financial markets will be appreciated and used.
The technology is as follows: OS (GNU/linux Debian 4 and 5), supervision tools (SNMP, syslog, Nagios), Cisco networks (IOS/PIXOS) and, communication protocols IGP, EGP, Multicast and MPLS. Ideally you are knowledgeable about QoS and networks security / audit.
Within Quality Assurance and in close collaboration with our R&D teams, you will validate new and maintenance developments of algorithmic trading tools. You will execute tests plans and, you will also contribute to developing them based on specifications and discussions with the developers. You will investigate defects found and escalate them appropriately up to their fixes. You will ensure a periodic reporting of your testing activities to give awareness about the quality of versions.
After your MSc, you have acquired a first-hand experience of software testing/QA in financial markets. You have ideally acquired some knowledge in trading and financial instruments and, you have strengthened your testing methodology skills. Any performance testing experience would be a plus. Your technical English is fine.
Teamwork oriented you will like to work with our development teams. Your learning curve and pro-activity combined with your organization, attention to details and curiosity will make you becoming a key member of our Quality Assurance team.
Within Quality Assurance and in close collaboration with our R&D teams, you will validate new and maintenance developments for our high performance market data solutions (FeedHandlers). You will analyze project documents and specifications to identify test requirements. You will develop the test case documents and execute them. You will investigate defects found and escalate them appropriately up to their fixes. You will ensure a periodic reporting of your testing activities to give awareness about the quality of versions.
After your MSc, you have acquired a first-hand experience working in a high performance software testing/QA position in financial markets. You have ideally acquired some knowledge in Market data, referential, quote information and, you have strengthened your testing methodology skills. Your knowledge of one scripting language (shell script, Perl, etc.) will facilitate you contributing to tests automation. You are used to command line tools (Linux, shell) and, your technical English is fine.
Teamwork oriented you will like to work with our development teams. Your learning curve and pro-activity combined with your organization, attention to details and curiosity will make you becoming a key member of our Quality Assurance team.
This new position reporting to our Head of Sales is the result of the exciting international growth we are currently experimenting.
As a self-starter with a strong drive for success, you will be responsible for prospect warm/cold-call potential users throughout the US consulting with them about their current trading solutions and selling them how the features and the technologies of our solutions will help them improving their P&L.
You will also take advantage of the leads we are getting to build on them, transforming leads into qualified projects for the Business Developers or filing them for future efforts when you come too early in the project process.
Identifying decision makers, maintaining and expanding the database of prospects and building standard quotations will also be part of your duties.
We want to hear from candidates who excel on the phone in a consultative environment,, who areexcited about developing a relationship with prospects over the phone.
Previous experience selling complex technology solutions to the financial markets will be a plus. A minimum of 2 years experience heavy outbound calls and documented records of sales achievements is required.
Extremely organized with superior written, verbal and non-verbal communications skills, you have ideally a previous experience with a CRM tool.
The natural career path will be to grow into a Business Development Executive role.
The Compliance Analyst is responsible for developing, implementing and administrating all aspects of compliance with international exchanges specific standards. Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer you will function as an independent and objective body that reviews and evaluates compliance issues/concerns within the organization. You interact at all levels in views of maintaining balance.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining Exchange provider relationships, coordinating audit activities and strategic reviews as well as assisting in addressing exchange policy actions and capability changes.
You will also manage enhancement requests in compliance with our internal lifecycle process as well as identify any issues with timelines or completion of enhancements ahead of time with timely and accurate updates.
Contributing to Product initiatives including, but not limited to, strategic-oriented deliverables;collaborating on budget planning activities and billing inquiries will also be part of your duties.
As an analyst you will be able to identify points of optimization, conflicting business practices and integration issues in order to suggest alternative solutions.
The ability to understand and clearly communicate Exchange compliance requirements is critical to the role. Conceptual knowledge of information technology and system implementations will also be required as you will work across groups to ensure adherence to Exchange requirements.
People skills are very important; you should be detail-oriented and persistent but team player with excellent written and oral communication skills.
As a member of the Research and Development Department, you will be responsible for designing the architecture of a new database (capacity in To) dedicated to stocking history of financial data. You will then proceed to its implementation.
You will be in charge of developing import tools to feed the database. You will control information consistency in order to provide our clients with quality files reporting the required periods, markets and instruments. You will aim at ensuring database scalability so as to optimise velocity and simplicity of data requests for client delivery.
As your knowledge of our data, solutions and various products will grow, you will be brought to take part in other projects as a database expert.
After your MSC, you have a 5 year experience in developing databases (Oracle, Sybase, etc) for Linuxand master script languages Shellor Python. C / C++ knowledge will be appreciated, along with a first exposure to market data.
You are a detail oriented person whose work is closely organised from conception to actualisation. You are used to managing your own projects; can structure your activity and coordinate with other teams. In addition, you’ve already been brought to ponder upon issues of distributed architectureand optimisation of high volume structures.
As a technical writer in QuantHouse R&D department, your main tasks will be to deliver clear, concise, and complete writings in relation with the using of our API and the systems administration (servers set-up, etc). Most of your output will thus be tailored to an audience of our customers: market data support engineers, trading assistants, systems engineers...
Your contacts will include all of our development, production, network and delivery teams as you will gather technical and functional information on our products from them mainly.
The position requires you hold a College degree with a Major ideally in technical communications, or English, journalism, ... A degree or knowledge in engineering and experience in API writing will be appreciated.
Excellent communications and adaptation skills are required as you will be coordinating the development and dissemination of technical content for a variety of users and in a variety of media. Curiosity and attention to detail are also highly desired traits.
Within our Project Management team, you will manage the implementation of our solutions from their integration into the clients’ technical architecture and systems up to training users. Your role will start at the early stage of pre sales to prepare and validate the project plan with our sales people, before getting it in front of clients.
You will then be responsible for ensuring the project kick-off, coordination and close monitoring of progress; you will lead and manage the project Steering Committee. You will guarantee sticking to commitments and deadlines to achieve the implementation. You will coordinate inside and client teams’ activity in order to ensureimplementation compliance as well as client acceptance. You will regularly report threats and progress.
You have acquired a rock-solid experience managing Front-Office implementation projects and, you want to develop your career further in a position combining complex project management with functional and technical knowledge of financial markets. Your excellent interpersonal skills will be highly solicited to interact with IT, Front Office and business sponsors. Knowledge in infrastructures and networks will be appreciated and used.
Extremely organized, you are used to creating and managing project plans paying attention to details while keeping the broad view. Results oriented, you find solutions and you motivate internal as external teams to achieve success. Fluent English and strong writing skills are a must to succeed in this position. Short travels in Europe may happen from time to time.
Based on market insight and clients feedback, you will propose long term orientations for our algo trading development framework. You will write functional specifications for the new features and, you will work closely with the R&D team to improve existing functionalities. As the business matter expert, you will help marketing and R&D to develop the technical documentation as well as product leaflets.
You will participate to pre-sales activities-from demonstrations to " proofs of concept ". You will contribute to client projects understanding their business specifics. Short international travel is anticipated.
After graduating your MSc from an engineering school or scientific university, you have acquired a significant experience of Front Office business analysis for financial markets that confirmed your strong analytical and problem solving skills. You have a good understanding of the quantitative trading IT and business needs.
You will join a complex environment that will utilize your functional and technical skills. Your fluent English and your interpersonal skills will be highly solicited to interact with our international clients and teams. Your knowledge of OO languages will be appreciated and used.
This position will be integrated to our Research and Development team dedicated to ultra low latency access to market data. You will actively take part to the development of our middleware (framework server and client API) and framework based services.
You will step in more specifically on the various layers of the application:
You show great sensitivity to agile development methods, paying great attention to the quality and performance of the code that you check through regular tests. You will be quickly efficient at operating SCRUM.
You have 4 years experience in C++ multithread development, ideally in financial markets. You are a meticulous and independent worker especially regarding development schedules. You are used to high performance, parallel programming, optimisation and high volumes subjects. Soft skills will also be needed.
Technical language is C++ for Unix/Linux, nonetheless additional knowledge in Java and C# will be appreciated. Knowledge in script languages (Bash, Perl, Python …) will be used.
As a Product Owner at Quanthouse, you will be a member of one of our R&D teams and will directly report to our CTO. You will represent the client in the Scrum team to ensure the targeted product is delivered on time. Other contacts will include our CEO and COO and expand from Development and QA teams. Your main occupation will be to form both functional and technical vision for your product.
Specifically, you will gather information about the market (clients, competitors, technologies) mostly through external surveys, contacts with our CTO, Sales and Operations feedback, etc. You will propose, agree and periodically review the product strategy with the management.
You will also be in charge of reviewing, prioritizing and integrating new features requests (functional and technical) in the product roadmap. You will specify the new functional features and you understand the technical architecture.
As a spokesperson for the product you will communicate publicly (to journalists, during tradeshows, etc). Internally, you will communicate the product strategy and its roadmaps (Long term, sprints).
You will equally provide support to internal teams regarding the product. This will include helping R&D to write functional and technical documentation and participating to pre sales activities (from demonstrations to “proofs of concepts”). Providing Marketing with written information on the product’s functional and technical features as well as delivering internal training on the product will also be part of your duties.
Ideally you hold a Masters degree and have a solid experience in the algo-trading area. You are a very committed person with ability to independently set priorities and estimate workloads. You have a keen sense for the “big picture” while maintaining great attention to details and deadlines.
The systems team at Quanthouse develops, maintains and updates the global infrastructure in purpose of ensuring high quality service to our clients. As one of its members, you will be in charge of systems management (based on Linux DEBIAN).
You will work in project mode on the implementation of new client architectures. Your intervention will expand from the assessment of needs stage (facilities, infrastructure), through conception and technical specifications, to the implementation of the systems and their documentation.
Fulfilling the global aim to guarantee continuity of services to our clients, you will solve technical incidents that may occur with both infrastructure and ultra low latency tools. You will act as a level 2 support in coordination with our client services team.
After a Masters in Computer Science, you went in for a career in Systems Engineering. You now have at least 3 years of similar experience in computer operation. You want to work in a demanding environment that requires reliability, reactivity and a flair for serving clients. Additional knowledge in market data would be both appreciated and used.
The technical requirements include knowledge in: operating systems (GNU/linux Debian 4 and 5), supervision tools (SNMP, syslog, Nagios) and hardware (wiring, Bios setting / DRAC/ILO, Solution Raid).
You are versatile with a commitment wish to highly complex system architecture projects?
QuantHouse is the global leader in end-to-end systematic trading solutions. Established in Chicago, New York, London and Paris, the value proposition we offer our clients –hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks and latency sensitive sell-side firms, is unique. This includes ultra-low latency market data technologies, Algo trading tools and infrastructure solutions including proximity hosting.
Our ambitious Research and Development program has been the backbone of our success. Our normalization capability has been increased by 300% within the last two years. We have been named or nominated several times for our innovation: best automated trading product, best data provider, system integration of the year.
And, we have won blue chip clients Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, the London Stock Exchange, etc.
Building on the stimulating growth we are achieving for several years in a row, our 2012 prospects are extremely exciting: strong technical and functional developments of our solutions, geographical expansion, lots of brand new positions within our R&D, product, consulting and sales teams.
After a year of development and the release of its first FPGA based hardware accelerator, QuantHouse is now looking for a SENIOR FPGA ENGINEER to expand its Hardware Acceleration team. The position will be integrated in our Research and Development department dedicated to ultra-low latency access to market data. You will actively take part in the development of our next FPGA offerings, based on high end Altera FPGA, and help us expand the range of hardware accelerated markets that can be offered to our customers.
Your job will include:
You have 5+ years of experience in FPGA development with in-depth knowledge of EDA tools and Verilog or VHDL language. You are proficient at identifying and solving complex timing problems as well as setting complex timing constraints. You thrive for developing clean and bug free modules that can reach the highest frequency while wasting the least resources. You are used to integrating complex modules in large projects and testing/debugging them on the board.
Knowledge of memory interfaces (DDR, QDR, SRAM, FIFO), bus interfaces (AXI, Avalon) and multiple clocks domains management and crossing is mandatory. Knowledge of tcl and bash scripting as well as C/C++ development is a plus.
Technical environment is SystemVerilog with Altera EDA/ModelSim and your choice of Windows or Linux. We use an agile development process called SCRUM.
If you are a self-starter who pays attention to details and have the “can-do” attitude, come and join us!
Exciting opportunities have arisen for Sales Executives to join QuantHouse, a leading provider of advanced systematic trading technologies. The roles revolve maintaining existing client relationships, ensuring revenue streams are consistent and that clients are kept well informed of any product enhancements. The roles also require attracting new clients. The roles involve delivering client presentations and product demonstrations and, ensuring that clients understand the suite of products and services available. The Sales Executives are also responsible for maximizing client usage, developing revenue streams within their client base and ensuring that the client’s interaction is always positive and productive.
Role:Establishing new client accounts and relationships with Hedge Funds, prop desks and prime brokers in order to achieve the sales quota;
The Pre-Sales Consultant will be a key member of the QuantHouse sales team, working shoulder to shoulder with QuantHouse business development representatives. Primary sales targets include high-end investment management organisations such as Hedge Funds, CTAs, Prop desk organisations, Global Prime Brokers, Fund Administrators and large Asset Managers.
The role is based in London (City) with International travel from time to time.
Role:Applicants MUST be eligible to live and work in the UK.The Pre-Sales Consultant will report to global Head of Sales & Marketing.
QuantHouse, very successful and fast growing financial technology provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including low latency market data feeds and algo-trading development tools, is looking to hire Channel Sales Managers for its London and New York based offices.
The Channel Sales Manager will manage business development aspects of QuantHouse’s partnerships with prime-brokers and Financial Technology providers, with a primary focus on sales revenue and lead generation. The role will balances sales support, partner management, and sales training with the focus of growing the sales funnel.
The Channel Sales Manager is acting as the liaison between QuantHouse and its Channel Partners will be responsible for:
QuantHouse, very successful and fast growing financial technology provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including low latency market data feeds and algo trading development tools, is looking to hire Business Development Managers for its London and New York based offices.
Role Responsibilities/ObjectivesYou must be goal orientated with good determination to succeed within the business
Exciting opportunities have arisen for Sales Executives to join QuantHouse, a leading provider of advanced systematic trading technologies. The roles revolve maintaining existing client relationships, ensuring revenue streams are consistent and that clients are kept well informed of any product enhancements. The roles also require attracting new clients. The roles involve delivering client presentations and product demonstrations and, ensuring that clients understand the suite of products and services available. The Sales Executives are also responsible for maximizing client usage, developing revenue streams within their client base and ensuring that the client’s interaction is always positive and productive.
Role:Establishing new client accounts and relationships with Hedge Funds, prop desks and prime brokers in order to achieve the sales quota;
Working remotely with our Project Management team, you will manage the implementation of our trading solutions from their integration into the clients’ technical architecture and systems up to training users. Your role will start at the early stage of pre sales to prepare and validate the project plan with our sales people, before getting it in front of clients.
You will then be responsible for ensuring the project kick-off, its coordination with the clients’ teams and the close monitoring of progress; you will lead and manage the project Steering Committee. You will guarantee sticking to commitments and deadlines to achieve the implementation being faithful to the project plan and to get the UAT within the agreed timeframe. You will regularly report threats and progress.
You have acquired a rock-solid experience managing Front-Office implementation projects and, you want to develop your career further in a position combining complex project management with functional and technical knowledge of financial markets. Your excellent interpersonal skills will be highly sollicitated to interact with IT, Front Office and business sponsors. Any C# will be appreciated and used.
Extremely organized, you are used to creating and managing project plans paying attention to details while keeping the broad view. Results oriented, you find solutions and you motivate internal as external teams to achieve success. Fluent English and strong writing skills are a must to succeed in this position. Short travels throughout the US and Canada may happen from time to time.
This new position reporting to our Business Development Director is the result of the exciting international growth we are currently experimenting.
As a self-starter with a strong drive for success, you will be responsible for prospect warm/cold-call potential users throughout the US consulting with them about their current trading solutions and selling them how the features and the technologies of our solutions will help them improving their P&L.
You will also take advantage of the leads we are getting to build on them, transforming leads into qualified projects for the Business Developers or filing them for future efforts.
Identifying decision makers, maintaining and expanding the database of prospects and building standard quotations will also be part of your duties.
We want to hear from candidates who excel on the phone in a consultative environment, who areexcited about developing a relationship with prospects over the phone.
Previous experience selling complex technology solutions to the financial markets will be a plus. A minimum of 2 years experience heavy outbound calls and documented records of sales achievements is required.
Extremely organized with superior written, verbal and non-verbal communications skills, you have ideally a previous experience with a CRM tool.
The natural career path will be to grow into a Business Development Executive role.
QuantHouse, very successful and fast growing financial technology provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including low latency market data feeds and algo-trading development tools, is looking to hire Channel Sales Managers for its London and New York based offices.
The Channel Sales Manager will manage business development aspects of QuantHouse’s partnerships with prime-brokers and Financial Technology providers, with a primary focus on sales revenue and lead generation. The role will balances sales support, partner management, and sales training with the focus of growing the sales funnel.
The Channel Sales Manager is acting as the liaison between QuantHouse and its Channel Partners will be responsible for:
QuantHouse, very successful and fast growing financial technology provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including low latency market data feeds and algo trading development tools, is looking to hire Business Development Managers for its London and New York based offices.
Role Responsibilities/ObjectivesYou must be goal orientated with good determination to succeed within the business