Millennium Management is a global hedge fund with more than 6,000 employees and offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. We were founded in 1989, and we employ a global multi-strategy investment approach, opportunistically engaging in a broad array of trading and investing strategies. Millennium has differentiated itself from other investment management firms through our consistent ability over the last 35 years to generate returns that have not been correlated to the general market.
The talent and dedication of our people are critical to our success. We offer an opportunity for developing one’s professional career while working with individuals trained in a variety of disciplines in a collegial and dynamic environment. We also offer a broad range of competitive benefits on a global basis.
General Information
- Hiring Department/Group: Equities
- Role: Quantitative Developer
- Office Location: Zug (CH)
Job Function Summary
The successful candidate will support the Equities Volatility business through development of low-latency front-office trading and pricing systems. They will partner closely with traders, quants, and technology teams to build scalable infrastructure across pricing, hedging, trade workflow, and risk processes. The role requires strong engineering capability, commercial awareness, and the ability to deliver reliable solutions in a fast-paced trading environment.
Principal Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance front-office trading, pricing, and risk infrastructure for Equities businesses.
- Build low-latency, scalable systems across pricing engines, quoting, hedging, and execution workflows. Partner with traders and quants to translate desk requirements into production-ready tools and analytics.
- Support index, basket, and Delta One workflows including rebalancing, hedging, and corporate actions processing.
- Design microservices and distributed architecture to improve performance, resiliency, and scalability.
- Drive automation and tooling enhancements to improve desk efficiency and reduce operational friction.
Qualifications/Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree from a university or equivalent and qualification
- Strong experience in front-office development within Equities, Delta One, market making, or derivatives trading environments.
- Deep understanding of the European and of the US markets.
- Advanced programming skills in Python, Java, React, and/or C# with experience building distributed systems.
- Proven track record delivering low-latency pricing, hedging, or trade workflow platforms.
- Strong understanding of trading lifecycle, market structure, and risk considerations in front-office environments.
- Experience with cloud and scalable infrastructure.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to work directly with traders, quants, and cross-functional technology teams