full-time
Quantitative Trader
Wealthsimple
- Employer
- Wealthsimple
- Location
- Canada
- Working pattern
- hybrid
About the role
Research market behavior and build quantitative models, simulations, and algorithms to improve order generation, routing, execution, and risk decisions. Operate and optimize algorithmic trading systems daily, adapting to market conditions and partnering 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 and strong Python skills. Candidates should have a solid foundation in statistics, probability, stochastic processes, and quantitative methods, and understand Canadian equity market structure; familiarity with low-latency trading is also sought, while CIRO trader registration is an asset.