full-time
Quantitative Trader
Wealthsimple
- Employer
- Wealthsimple
- Location
- New York
- Working pattern
- remote
About the role
Research market behavior and build quantitative models and algorithms to improve order routing, execution, and risk decisions. Operate and optimize algorithmic trading systems, validate their performance through simulations, and collaborate with engineering, data science, operations, and product teams. Requires at least three years of experience in quantitative trading, quantitative research, algorithmic trading development, or a related capital markets role, along with a STEM degree from a leading institution and strong Python scripting skills. Candidates should have a solid foundation in statistics, probability, stochastic processes, and quantitative methods, understand Canadian equity market structure, and be familiar with low-latency trading; CIRO trader registration is an asset.