The Firm

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.

We leverage the talent of the people who work here, modern computational techniques and state-of-the-art research infrastructure to analyse large data sets across markets quickly and efficiently, to maximize the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms. We are actively seeking new methods and ideas. The models that drive our trading strategies have evolved considerably over the last 10 years, from econometric methods that gave our company its name, to trees, to neural networks, to modern deep learning architectures.

XTX Markets has an unrivalled level of computational resources in the trading industry, with a growing research cluster currently containing over 25,000 GPUs with 650 petabytes of usable storage. Teams across the firm include world-class researchers with backgrounds in pure math, programming, physics, computer science and machine learning. The firm is also constructing a large-scale data centre in Finland to future-proof its significant computational capabilities.

At XTX Markets technology is our business and we are a diverse organization which attracts outstanding talent from across all industry backgrounds. We are focused on teamwork and our people collaborate on all aspects of the business, working openly and with respect for each other, our clients and the market. Our culture is non-hierarchical and one where everyone is valued. We strive for excellence in everything we do.

The Role

The "Trading Desk" oversees real-time trading across all strategies, liaising with risk managers, senior management, researchers, software developers, systems engineers, external counterparties, and customers in order to keep the business running 24/7. They closely monitor real world events and their impact on markets and if necessary, undertake the appropriate action to ensure the best outcome for XTX, our customers, and counterparties. You will be expected to work from the Singapore office at least 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Supervise trading strategies and provide first level support to ensure smooth running of the business.

• Risk management of the global portfolio across multiple asset classes throughout the day.

• Use trading metrics and data analysis methods in the decision-making process to improve existing strategies.

• Conduct preliminary research into new strategy ideas.

• Collaborate with quant research team to provide real-time feedback on model optimization.

• Assist with project work relating to expansion into new markets.

• Team up with developers to improve automated tools for monitoring trading and alerting of internal and external anomalies.

• Liaise with brokers/exchanges, trading operations and back office on trade/position reconciliation issues, risk limits and margin requirements.

Essential Attributes

• You will have 0-4 years working experience and will be able to demonstrate excellent trading intuition and knowledge of products relevant to XTX; Equities, Commodities, FX, Fixed Income and more.
• Proficiency in Python (we use Pandas regularly).
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.

Desirable Attributes

• Graduate from a top university in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You operate with integrity and to a high ethical standard.
• You are highly motivated; current, and former colleagues consider you exceptionally hard working and conscientious.
• Innovative. You continually think about how improvements in technology and processes can achieve better results. You are conscious of the long-term cost of short-term decisions but demonstrate good judgment on when to be pragmatic.
• Team player. You enjoy working in a dynamic team and are comfortable with being challenged to improve your work.
• Disciplined self-starter with a high degree of motivation and rigour.