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Graduate Quant Researcher

Company
Da Vinci
Type
Graduate position
Location
Amsterdam
Sector
Trading

Description

As a Graduate Quant Trader at Da Vinci, you’ll work alongside a fun team of highly skilled traders and engineers. Our Quant Traders are key to developing, improving and implementing algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyse market data to build new trading strategies
  • Develop tools that translate data analysis results into useful inputs for trading
  • Continuously monitor trades and improve our existing strategies
  • Evaluate prospective markets for opportunities

Requirements:

  • Technical background (Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or similar quantitative studies) with an interest for the financial markets
  • Programming knowledge in Python, MATLAB, R or C++
  • Ability to understand mathematical theory and translate it into practice
  • Good communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Analytical approach to solving complex problems
  • Competitive but cooperative attitude
  • Proactive and entrepreneurial mindset

Benefits

  • A comprehensive theoretical and practical training program provided by our dedicated in-house trainer
  • Sign-on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 100k
  • Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
  • Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
  • A relocation package when moving from abroad, including a relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
  • Meals during work hours
  • Social events and after-work drinks
  • Reimbursement of travel costs
  • Sponsored gym membership and in-house chair massage
  • In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)