Graduate Trader

As a Graduate Trader at Da Vinci, you’ll work with a fun team of highly skilled researchers and engineers. Our Traders are key to developing and utilizing algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

Responsibilities:

• Generate profits through automated volatility trading
• Risk management of your portfolio
• Improve and refine our trading infrastructure and setup
• Continuously analyse and improve our existing strategies
• Evaluate new opportunities and devise new trading strategies to capitalize on them

Requirements:

• Technical background (Math, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or similar quantitative studies)
• Strong interest in trading (Experience in real or simulated trading is a plus)
• Ability to make decisions under pressure
• Understanding of risk and reward patterns
• Strong affinity with numbers
• Programming knowledge in any language (we use Python)
• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical approach to solving complex problems
• Competitive but cooperative attitude
• Proactive and an entrepreneurial mindset

Benefits:

• An opportunity to work beside the best in the field
• Base salary of USD 140k
• Excellent variable pay based on performance, with a fair bonus-structure awarding company profits to software engineers, traders and researchers alike
• Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
• Relocation package when moving across states
• Training period in Amsterdam to get to know the team
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 25 vacation days each year
• Meals during work hours
• Social events and after-work drinks

Currently we are not offering opportunities to write a thesis. This may change in the future. Please visit our website periodically and follow us on social media to stay up to date.