Positions
We are always open to meeting candidates who can help us fulfill the technical and quantitative demands in our rapidly evolving field. To see if you would be a good fit with us, see our current opportunities below. To see if we would be a good fit for you, please visit our culture page.
Athena Capital Research is an equal opportunity employer and Athena considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or other status protected by federal, state or local law. Athena complies with the applicable laws prohibiting discrimination of employment in every jurisdiction in which we maintain facilities and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.
Athena Capital Research is an equal opportunity employer and Athena considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or other status protected by federal, state or local law. Athena complies with the applicable laws prohibiting discrimination of employment in every jurisdiction in which we maintain facilities and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to help us develop our trading infrastructure. Job responsibilities include expanding and maintaining our trading capabilities in various markets around the world.
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Duties will include:
- Adding new capabilities to our software libraries for automated trading
- Maintaining, bug fixing, and enhancing our software infrastructure
- Coding connections to new markets
- Optimizing the performance of our systems
- Building risk management and performance tracking tools using the latest web 2.0 technologies
- Expert C++ programming skills, along with STL, Boost, networking, threading
- Ability to write sizable applications and manage complexity using software engineering best-practices, and other methods
- Familiarity with bash, Ruby, Lua, Ext JS (or other Javascript frameworks), MySQL, and MongoDB a bonus
- Excellent object oriented programming and problem-solving skills
- Effective Communicator and decision maker
- Extensive Linux experience
- Financial knowledge NOT required
- Competitive base salary
- Opportunity to earn large bonus, based on performance
- Four weeks of paid vacation
- Complete health coverage including dental
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition and educational reimbursement
- Direct access to senior personnel
- Frequent company outings
- Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit
Requirements
Candidates should have all of the following:Compensation
We treat ourselves well:If qualified and interested, please send an email to stie@athenacr.com with job title in the subject line.
Athena is looking for a tech genius to support and develop our systems infrastructure. This position requires extensive problem-solving skills and a consistent desire to outperform. You will join a team of highly skilled professionals who will depend on your knowledge and ability to manage our technology processes.
Duties:
- Ownership of our systems infrastructure across multiple data centers, including hardware, networking (switches, routers and cross connects/private lines/VPN tunnels), OS, backend services (Kerberos, AFS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, package repositories, etc), storage and security
- Ensure availability and performance of Production trading systems during market hours
- Improve stability and fault tolerance of our systems and network infrastructure
- Enhance monitoring for our systems and network infrastructure, including writing custom checks
- Establish and improve performance metrics and system usage gathering with trends
- Develop scripts to batch and automate systems tasks
- Maintain, create and distribute internal packages for our Linux systems to deploy common settings and tools
- Perform database administration duties, including setup/configurations, data population, access control, monitoring, replication and backups, load balancing and automatic failover, tuning indexes and DB/OS-level parameters to optimize performance, etc
- Maintain 150+ computers and network devices with assistance from “remote hands”
- Work with exchanges and other service/telco providers on network connectivity, multicast routing, etc
- Work with partners, developers, and users to improve our systems and plan for future needs
- Stay informed and suggest use of best-in-class industry solutions and new technologies.
- Expectation to understand our entire software stack, from kernel issues to application deployment.
Desired skills:
- Extensive experience with Linux systems
- Solid knowledge of some scripting languages (BASH, Perl, Ruby, etc)
- DNS, SMTP, NFS, and Apache (with experience in some web programming languages such as PHP)
- Knowledge of TCP/IP and some level of experience with Cisco or other enterprise-level network equipment
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Experience in customer support is a plus
- Desire to be an important member of a team working together to achieve success
- Debian / Ubuntu Linux
- Kerberos, OpenAFS, and LDAP
- Extensive experience using and managing 50+ node clusters
- Development experience with at least one major programming language
- A history of using and contributing to Free Software
Salary:
$100,000+/yearBenefits:
- Opportunity to earn large bonus, based on performance
- Four weeks of paid vacation
- Complete health coverage including dental
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition and educational reimbursement
- Direct access to senior personnel
- Frequent company outings
- Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit
Athena is looking for talented individuals to perform quantitative research. This position is challenging and potentially very rewarding, requiring excellent quantitative skills, programming experience and the desire necessary to beat the market. You will join a group of highly skilled professionals focused on developing cutting-edge trading strategies.
Position Description
Our firm specializes in fully automated trading. We have developed a best-in-class automated trading platform, featuring not only direct market access to most major financial exchanges, but a complete system for developing and automating trading strategies. Your role will be to assist in developing quantitative strategies among a team of experienced individuals.Requirements
Candidates should have all of the following:- Degree from a top-tier school in a technical, scientific, and/or quantitative field
- Experience with a major object oriented programming language (C++ / Java / C# preferred)
- Experience working with Unix-based systems
- Strong desire to conquer the challenge of outperforming other financial market participants
- Self-motivated, hard working, creative and competitive personality
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Track record of achievement and success
Desired Skills
- Statistical modeling, time series, or other data modeling experience
- C++, bash, Matlab, Ruby, or Lua: expertise with any of these is a plus
Compensation
We treat ourselves well:- Competitive base salary
- Opportunity to earn large bonus, based on performance
- Four weeks of paid vacation
- Complete health coverage including dental
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition and educational reimbursement
- Direct access to senior personnel
- Frequent company outings
- Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit
We seek developers of automated trading strategies with proven tracks records of profitability. A successful Portfolio Manager candidate has more than three years experience committing capital, must excel at risk management and be the primary force behind the trading strategy.
Position Description
Our hedge fund specializes in fully automated trading. We have developed a best-in-class automated trading platform, featuring direct market access to most major financial exchanges, and a complete system for developing and automating trading strategies. We will provide the technology, the capital, detailed historical data, lowest cost commissions, and highest quality executions—you will leverage these tools to build profitable trading strategies. We’ve built the body, you build the brains. This position will be directly responsible for generating profits for the company. A core part of our culture is to share profits with people who are responsible for them. Therefore, this position is potentially very lucrative. We will provide you with the resources needed; it will be up to you to develop and drive these strategies to maximum profitability.Requirements
Candidates should have all of the following:- 3+ years managing and developing strategies and managing portfolio risk
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree from a top-tier school in a technical, scientific, and/or quantitative field
- 2+ years experience with a major object oriented programming language (C++ / Java / C# preferred)
- 2+ years experience working with Unix-based systems
- Strong desire to conquer the challenge of outperforming other financial market participants
- Self-motivated, hard working, creative and competitive personality
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven interest in finance—industry experience, academic classes, or investing/trading experience.
Desired Skills
- Statistical modeling, time series, or other data modeling experience
- C++, bash, Matlab, Ruby, or Lua: expertise with any of these is a plus
Compensation
We treat ourselves well:- Competitive base salary
- Opportunity to earn large bonus, based on performance
- Four weeks of paid vacation
- Complete health coverage including dental
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition and educational reimbursement
- Direct access to senior personnel
- Frequent company outings
- Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit