Position: Junior Data Scientist
Company: Meritos Trade
Experience required: 1y
English level: intermediate

Meritos Trade is a prop-trading company founded in 2018. We trade our own capital, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. We work to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.

Our task is to create a mechanism for effective investment in various types of investment instruments, using modern technologies and advanced ideas.

At the moment we are looking for Data Scientist

The objective is:
• To drive and implement the automation and optimization of volatility trading, including client trade pricing and hedging;
• Improvement and support of existing algorithms;
• Contribute from idea generation to production implementation, perform research, design prototype, implement analytics and trading algorithms;
• Analyze large sets of market data to test hypotheses and obtain useful information;
• Create, develop, test and maintain trading strategies, improve existing ones, incl. using Machine learning algorithms;
• Back test preparation;
• Approval of a successful idea with the team, transfer to the developer for implementation.

This should make extensive use of data and quantitative techniques, including machine learning.

Successful candidate should have:
• Experience in Financial, Big Data from 1 years;
• Experience in Data Science — from 1 year;
• Python programming experience required (Data analysis libraries — NumPy, Pandas);
• Higher education — mathematics, statistics, programming, economics;
• Autonomy, orientation and responsibility for the result, system, organization, attentiveness, initiative and openness;
• Have the ability to devise and implement trading algorithms;
• Extensive knowledge on e-trading infrastructure and data specs, being able to deliver end to end solutions to the business.

Desirable but not required:
• Knowledge Machine learning in financial;
• Familiarity with any API: Binance API, BitMex API, Interactive Brokers API, Alpha Vantage API;
• SQL / NoSQL Databases;
• Experience in trading;
• Level of English — Intermediate and above.

For you, as a specialist, we offer:
• A strong team in one office, ready to help: financial analysts, traders, developers;
• Medical insurance after the trial period (100% coverage, premium package);
• Career opportunities in Team lead, Head of department;
• We value the free time of our colleagues, therefore we are very flexible in terms of the schedule. We are not tied to the time of work, but to the result;
• Office with comfortable working conditions, 15 minutes walk from the Polytechnic Institute metro station;
• Corporate events;
• 18 working days of paid leave and 12 days of sick leave per year;
• No dress code policy and low level of bureaucracy;
• An individual annual training budget with an opportunity to visit paid conferences, training sessions, workshops, etc.;
• Free corporate library.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success.