Junior Quant Programmer- Structured Credit

Junior Quant Programmer for Structured Credit Hedge Fund

Mid-sized structured credit fund seeks experienced quant programmer self-starter to help build and develop trading and operations/finance tools across a variety of product areas.  Strong programming skills required and knowledge of operating systems and database desirable, paired with experience working with financial products, and ability to work well in a fluid and collegial organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Join existing quant team to develop tools to analyze and identify relative value in a variety of structured credit instruments.  The position entails a high level of interactions with the experienced and quantitatively-oriented trading team, risk manager, and the rest of the quant team.  Additional responsibilities include working with external IT firms to maintain and improve our overall IT infrastructure that includes networking, file and database replication.

Skills required:

• Programming: Python, VBA, SQL.  Good programming practice, database desi
• Degree: A bachelor''s degree in quantitative fields such as CS, engineering, physics, and math
• Market:  Good familiarity with financial concepts -- yield curves, fixed income instruments, corporate bonds and loans, P&L, risk analysis 
• Other: Good oral and written communication skills required