Senior Quant Developer – Stockhunt AI

Job Description 

Role: Senior Quant Developer – AI

Location: Remote / Kraków / Ho Chi Minh City / Ahmedabad

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

About Client
They are building an AI-driven trading and investing platform covering stocks, futures,

forex, and crypto. They develop quantitative strategies, portfolio models, copy trading solutions, and low-latency execution systems.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Quant Developer to design, build, test, and deploy systematic trading strategies. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with quantitative finance and algorithmic trading experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quantitative trading strategies.

• Build backtesting, optimization, and portfolio construction frameworks.

• Implement walk-forward analysis, Monte Carlo testing, and robustness validation.

• Work with market data including equities, futures, forex, and crypto.

• Integrate machine learning models into trading workflows.

• Collaborate with Java execution and platform engineering teams.

• Deploy research into production trading environments.

• Monitor strategy performance and improve risk-adjusted returns.

Required Skills

• 5+ years Python development experience

• Strong knowledge of Pandas, Polars, NumPy

• Experience with VectorBT, Backtrader, or QuantConnect LEAN

• Strong statistics and quantitative finance knowledge

• Portfolio optimization and risk management experience

• Experience with futures, forex, equities, or crypto trading

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and cloud environments

• Git, Docker, CI/CD experience

Preferred Skills

• Machine learning (XGBoost, LightGBM, PyTorch)

• FIX protocol knowledge

• Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, or LMAX integrations

• Java or C++ exposure

• Experience with institutional trading systems

Success Metrics

• Build 100+ validated strategy candidates annually

• Develop production-grade research infrastructure

• Improve portfolio Sharpe ratio and reduce drawdowns

• Create scalable AI-driven trading models

Compensation

• Competitive salary, 

• performance bonus, 

• stock options/equity consideration, 

• opportunity to work on a global AI trading platform.