Senior Research Engineer - London Office

Posted 21 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
As a Senior Research Engineer, you will develop and integrate a trading model research framework, enhance existing tools for Quantitative Researchers and Traders, and collaborate with business stakeholders for tool requirements and design. You will also ensure deployment and production management of these models.
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Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join us in our London office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. 

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will be responsible for helping to lead the development of our trading model research framework and its integration with our platform for deploying/running those models in production. You'll be responsible for expanding the current (limited) scope of the framework and platform to become the global standard way of training, consuming, combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way.

 What you will do

  • Lead the development and global rollout of our research framework for defining and training models through various optimization procedures (supervised learning, backtesting etc.), as well as its integration with our platform for deploying and running those models in production
  • Develop tools/frameworks for use by our Quantitative Researchers and Traders to test hypotheses and tune/develop data-driven systematic trading strategies
  • Work with the business to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of research tools

  What you need to succeed

  • Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in a relevant field
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in MLOps and Research Engineering
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, with experience in libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, deployment, and monitoring
  • Prior commercial experience in designing and implementing systematic trading systems
  • Experience in developing and deploying RESTful APIs and microservices for model serving
  • Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark
  • Experience with data visualization and reporting tools
  • Familiarity with databases and query languages for data extraction and transformation
  • Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices and tools (e.g. Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for our London office.

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

Top Skills

Python
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
626 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.

Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.

At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.

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