Senior Performance Researcher

The role

You will improve trading execution by studying the end-to-end path from exchange market data through trading systems, network infrastructure, and broker systems. You will combine quantitative analysis, systems knowledge, and experimentation to understand complex system behavior.

What you will do

• Analyze large-scale market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct the full order lifecycle
• Identify factors affecting latency, reliability, order responses, and fill outcomes
• Develop hypotheses and design experiments
• Use black-box analysis and partial or indirect observations to understand complex systems
• Build analyses, prototypes, performance metrics, and monitoring tools
• Measure the production impact of changes
• Translate findings into engineering and connectivity priorities

Required qualifications

• Strong scientific and critical-thinking skills
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: Low-latency or electronic trading systems and exchange connectivity, Broker or exchange technology, Linux, computer architecture, or system-level perfo
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, multicast, packet-level behavior, kernel-bypass technologies, etc.
• Strong Python and data-analysis skills
• Experience analysing event, time-series, system-log, or network data
• Able to reason from partial or noisy data
• Able to form testable hypotheses and infer system behavior from limited observations
• Able to work autonomously
• Able to communicate complex findings clearly
• Able to prioritize practical impact

Nice to have

• Familiarity with C++, packet analysis, performance profiling
• Experience with Chinese exchanges, broker infrastructure, trading-system vendors, or carrier networks

Benefits

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Competitive compensation package
• Office breakfast, lunch, snacks etc.
• Sponsored gym membership, sports and leisure activities
• Weekly in-house chair massages
• Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks

About the company

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