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Y Quants AG

Quantitative Trading Engineer (100%)

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About Us

We are a proprietary family office operating a high-frequency trading (HFT) division that specializes in market-making and liquidity-provision strategies across global crypto markets.


Our competitive edge lies in the seamless fusion of quantitative modelling, ultra-low-latency engineering, and deterministic system design executed by a small, elite team of quants and engineers.

We operate in an environment where microseconds define profitability and precision beats randomness.

We’re now expanding our quantitative core and seeking a Quantitative Trading Engineer a builder who can transform ideas into executable, profit-generating systems. Someone who bridges research and live deployment, owning the full cycle from concept to code to production.


Your Role

This is not a corporate position.

No endless meetings. No bureaucracy. No layers of management.

You’ll be working in deep focus on researching, coding, optimizing, and deploying logic that directly impacts our live trading systems.

Our CEO handles all external noise, so your entire attention stays on one goal: building trading strategies that actually perform in the market.


Your Mission

  • Research, design, and implement quantitative trading strategies for high-frequency market-making and execution.
  • Develop and optimize algorithms for spread control, inventory management, and adverse selection mitigation.
  • Engineer low-latency connectivity with global exchanges (WebSocket, REST, FIX) and ensure deterministic order book processing.
  • Build realistic simulation and backtesting frameworks that mirror live-market latency and microstructure.
  • Collaborate with our core systems team to deploy and monitor strategies in real time, ensuring continuous stability and performance.
  • Analyze and refine performance metrics (PnL attribution, risk factors, micro-latency patterns).
  • Contribute to our quant research infrastructure, turning models into reproducible, production-grade trading logic.

You’ll work on Swiss trading hours (100%), either remotely or from our office your choice.


Your Profile

  • Proven experience as a Quantitative Developer, Software Engineer, Trading Engineer, or Researcher in HFT, market-making, or execution algorithm environments.
  • Strong understanding of market microstructure, order book dynamics, and short-term predictive modeling.
  • Advanced programming ability in Python (asyncio, multiprocessing, cython, etc.); C++ proficiency a strong plus.
  • Experience building simulation and backtesting frameworks for latency-sensitive strategies.
  • Expertise in exchange APIs, real-time data processing, and event-driven systems.
  • Analytical mindset obsessed with precision, reproducibility, and deterministic execution.
  • Comfortable working in Linux environments and production pipelines.
  • Fluent in English (German is a plus).


What we offer

Performance-based upside: Competitive base + direct P&L participation. Every effective line of code earns you results.

Pure engineering focus: No meetings. No bureaucracy. Sync via Telegram, ship daily.

Direct market impact: What you build goes live, instantly affecting P&L.

Fully remote (Swiss working hours).

Frontier tech: Work alongside top-tier quants and engineers on ultra-low-latency systems.

Culture: Speed, precision, and relentless optimization, your code literally moves the market.


How to apply:

Your Top 3 Technical Projects:

Describe your most impactful and technically challenging work, what you built, why it mattered, and how you solved the toughest problems.


Collaboration & Background:

Who you worked with (references welcome), the industries you’ve been part of, and your specific roles and responsibilities.


Nice-to-have:

(Trading & Hedge Fund Experience:

Detail your experience within trading or hedge fund environments, including firms, project scope, duration, and references if available.)


Next Steps

  1. We review all applications carefully
  2. Selected candidates complete a short Python coding challenge.
  3. The top performers receive an offer.


Join us at the most outcome-driven firm in HFT built on freedom, focus, and performance.

P.S. Head-hunters and automated applications will be ignored.