Systematic Trader

Trader for a Discretionary Macro Team Focused on High Yield/Stressed/Distressed Credit A Career with Point72’s Macro Team Point72’s Global Macro business is a scaled, global investment platform with more than two decades of experience trading across rates, FX, credit, volatility, and emerging markets. Operating across 10 offices worldwide, we have doubled our capital allocation and grown our number of teams fivefold since 2020. We combine deep asset-class expertise with a highly collaborative culture across macro, fundamental equities, and systematic strategies to drive differentiated investment performance and support long-term career growth for our talent. What you’ll do Work with the portfolio manager on electronic and non-electronic execution of all credit trades. Maintain strong relationships with a broad set of liquidity providers. Analyze new issues and maintain relationships with syndicate desks. Be responsible for position maintenance (e.g., CDS rolls) and liaise with Investment Services teams on corporate actions. Conduct research on things such as transaction cost analysis and broker/algorithm evaluation. What’s REQUIRED 3+ years of work experience as a credit trader in corporate bonds or CDS. Experience with OMS/EMS platforms such as MarketAxess and TradeWeb. A team player and collaborative mentality. Understanding of order lifecycle from order generation to booking and TCA. Keen intuition for markets and a passion for studying them. Intellectual curiosity, tenacity, and the ability and willingness to proactively communicate potential operations risks. Strong problem solving and communication skills. Commitment to the highest ethical standards. We take care of our people We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide: Fully paid health care benefits Generous parental and family leave policies Volunteer opportunities Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women

About Cubist: Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources. Role: Quantitative Developer for a PM team focused on systematic credit and related asset classes. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate, learn, and lead technology projects with high business impact. Responsibilities: Design and develop software for strategy research and trading. Build and improve tools for data acquisition, processing, and visualization. Work on the execution/order management system, live dashboards, and P&L reconciliation tools. Manage the team’s CI/CD pipeline, job running infrastructure, and other tech components. Ensure robustness and efficiency of the team’s systems. Be ready to troubleshoot and correct any issues. Collaborate with the portfolio manager, quant researchers, and traders. Requirements: Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science. 2+ years of experience developing research and trading infrastructure at a financial institution, or demonstrated excellent skills required for the role. Prior experience with execution/order management systems, real-time data servers, and visualization is a plus. Solid understanding of Linux OS—system components, process management, shell scripting. Proficiency in Python, including in the object-oriented design, unit/reg testing, conda environment management. Knowledge of SQL, JavaScript, Apache airflow. Strong communication skills. Willingness to take ownership of his/her work. Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. Are you excited by the opportunity to be part of a dynamic trading environment that values teamwork and collaboration? Do you thrive in an innovative atmosphere? If so, we encourage you to consider Chicago Trading Company! The Role The Quant Trading Associate (QTA) role is our entry-level position within our Trading and Quant organization and gives you broad exposure to the whole business as you work towards graduating from the Associate Program and assuming a role as a Quant Trader or Quant Researcher. As a QTA, you will work in a high-impact role as a member of a trading or quantitative team. You will play a vital part in identifying trading opportunities and impacting your team through dynamic problem solving — including trade execution, strategy formulation, back-testing, data analysis, and the modeling and pricing of traded financial derivatives — while communicating with traders, risk managers, software engineers, and quants throughout the trading day. You will learn all aspects of the trading and quant operation and work towards a role that generates trading revenue or drives strategy development for the team. In addition to the

The Trading team develops and operates quantitative trading strategies across prediction markets, equity markets, and crypto markets . We are looking for a Trading Operations & Support Analyst to support live systematic trading, ensure smooth day-to-day operations, and help improve the reliability and efficiency of our trading systems and processes. Responsibilities: Monitor live trading systems, strategies, orders, positions, P&L, and risk. Act as the first line of support for trading, execution, exchange connectivity, and production issues. Investigate and resolve order, position, P&L, reconciliation, and trading-system exceptions. Coordinate with traders, quantitative developers, exchanges, brokers, and other counterparties to resolve live trading issues. Support strategy deployments, system releases, testing, and production changes. Monitor exchange and market events, outages, connectivity issues, and other operational risks. Analyze trading and operational metrics to identify issues and improve processes. Develop tools and automation to improve monitoring, reconciliation, reporting, and trading operations. Maintain operational procedures and controls for production trading. Participate in local trading coverage and rotating weekend coverage. Requirements: 3+ years of experience in electronic trading, trade support, trading operations, production support, or a related role. Strong understanding of electronic trading, order lifecycle, positions, P&L, and risk. Ability to troubleshoot issues calmly and effectively in a fast-moving production environment. Strong Python or scripting skills; SQL experience is preferred. Experience working with large trading or market datasets. Strong analytical, communication,

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. The Role As a Quant Trading (QT) Intern, you will be challenged to learn and adapt in an exciting team environment and will play a substantial role in our day-to-day trading and quant-related activities. Your impact is immediate and meaningful. You will become a member of a team for the summer and play a vital role completing project work and/or identifying trading opportunities and communicating with software engineers, quants, traders, and risk managers throughout the trading day. As part of the Summer Associate cohort, you will learn and socialize alongside other QT Interns and Software Engineering (SE) Interns. What to Expect The 8-week internship program gives you insight into our culture and an inward look into what our business is all about. You will participate in three classroom learning experiences including: a week-long Basics of Options class, a multi-week class on the fundamentals of market making (Mock Trading), and a multi-week class that introduces elements of our quant framework (Quant Curriculum). You will also attend planned social activities and talks from various business leaders to propel your professional growth, and

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. The Role As a Software Engineering (SE) Intern, you will be challenged to learn and adapt in a dynamic, forward-thinking, and fast-paced environment and will experience life as an engineer on one of our technology teams. Your impact is immediate and meaningful. You will work alongside software engineers designing, solving and testing complex coding problems that will deliver solutions to our trading tools and risk applications. You will build the tools traders and quants rely on to price, trade, and manage risk in real time - and because our release cycles are measured in days, you will watch your code reach production and affect the desk almost immediately. This work draws on a solid foundation in computer science, software development practice, and strong communication and teamwork. You will get exposure to the design and implementation of these systems, which will allow you to build upon your technical skills. As part of the Summer Associate cohort, you will learn and socialize alongside other SE Interns and Quant Trading (QT) Interns. There are a variety of languages you could get practical experience working with including (but