Trading Systems DevOps Engineer 26 May 2023, 7:55 pm

To apply or for more information, email your resume to jeremy@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line

Focus Capital is supporting its systematic options strategies and real-time market data divisions by hiring a DevOps Systems Engineer with diverse experience in DevOps lifecycles, infrastructure and technical automation in a real-time trading environment. Both teams are best of breed, and in each you would interface with the top strategists in the field.

In the systematic options team, you will assist in deploying an advanced real-time trading system by working with the software engineers and interfacing with the portfolio managers, traders and quants who use the system each day. In the market data team, you will assist in building and deploying a state-of-the-art next gen market data research and integration platform that is being built from scratch. In both instances, you will be responsible for the CI/CD and deployment and maintenance of cloud and on-premise environments.

Both teams are based in NYC, but there is some remote flexibility depending on your location.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of DevOps or Systems Engineering experience, ideally on the buyside.
• Proven experience with CI/CD and IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
• SQL expertise
• Experience with Python scripting
• C++ exposure is a plus
• Gitlab, TeamCity and/or Jenkins experience
• Prior experience working in a Linux environment.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a related field of study.

Focus Capital Markets, for over 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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Senior Options Trading Quant Researcher 26 May 2023, 7:43 pm

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line

Focus Capital Markets is supporting its forward-thinking systematic trading partner by introducing a sophisticated quantitative researcher to its options market making trading team, widely regarded as the top options trading group in the entire country. Technology is at the core of the firm’s multi-decade track record and therefore we are seeking a quantitative researcher who can scale the options desk trade strategy, build pricing models, drive the trade system design and overall analysis from a quantitative/technical/statistical point of view. In this role, you will also participate in building tools and workflows for systematic trading strategies that directly influence the PnL, which you will share in. The right person for this position will be a quantitative professional equally adept in research as they are in options trade strategy and mentorship of junior researchers.

The firm is best of breed and has had unprecedented success using quantitative methodology to systematically trade options for over two decades. This is a life changing opportunity and meant for someone seeking longevity, stability, with a highly-rewarding compensation structure.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 3+ years of experience working as a quant researcher on an options trading desk, with a focus on alpha research.
• Ideally you will have equity options experience.
• Ability to code/model in Python or C++
• For a more senior candidate, we are seeking an ability to lead and mentor junior quant researchers.
• FICC (Fixed Income Clearing Corporation) exposure is a plus.
• A bachelors or higher in math, statistics, analytics, finance, computer science or a related field of study
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Team player mentality – there are no egos as this firm.

Focus Capital Markets, for over 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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Structured Products Quant 27 Oct 2021, 9:49 pm

The scope of products covered includes US and Non-US RMBS, CMBS, CML, CDO, CLO. He/she will support the firm’s Credit and Market Risk Officers in developing quantitative risk analytics, reporting and new transaction review and approval.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Individual will have an understanding of structured products. Hands-on experience in commercial and residential real estate product risk management preferred. He/she must be a hands-on quant, a good communicator capable of providing thought leadership with the ability to influence discussions with other senior professionals across the enterprise.

Individual will support all aspects of risk analytics and model development:
• Develop and implement a stress testing framework across the full spectrum of structured products and risk factors to support risk measurement and monitoring
• Provide effective review and challenge of on-going infrastructure enhancement activities, particularly in the review of internal and vendor models, input assumptions, loan-level overwrites, and results.
• Develop and implement the firm’s risk reporting and monitoring for structured products.
• Develop analytics and processes supporting new transaction risk management review and approval.

Job Requirements • PhD in a quantitative field
• 2+ years capital markets experience in the area of fixed income investment focused on structured products in risk management, valuation, or desk strategist.
• Hands-on experience with Polypath, Intex. Familiarity with Trepp/Compass/PPR major plus.
• Hands-on with database query is a must and individual must be comfortable with at least one major programming language.
• Experience with econometric modeling a plus.
• Strong communicator, energetic, team player and capable of motivating and building consensus.

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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Senior Systems Engineers 27 Oct 2021, 9:47 pm

Focus Capital is growing the fastest in its history. We are looking for C++ developers who like to be treated as family rather than as hired guns. “We are the leader in Wall St. technology not because we are driven but because we care.”–Scott Gerson

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Focus Capital Markets the Brand “Name” in Wall St. Technology is looking to hire as many as 50 developers for its trading systems consulting group. Scott Gerson, the President of Focus has over 35 years in the industry and is personally over-seeing this expansion. We are looking for hands on developers with serious expertise in UNIX/C++ along with multithreading/synchronization and distributed computing as we break the sub-microsecond transaction barrier. Ours is an open environment and you must be dedicated. These are not settle and disappear positions. You should be comfortable operating with multi-functional teams and debating the merits of competing technology and operational choices in a frank and open manner. We are truly “think out of the box” developers that don’t need books to code; many of us have written them. Whether consulting or full time our average employee is with us for 10 years. Full-time benefits include 4 weeks of vacation and fully paid medical and dental from day one.

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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RW Core Java Developers 27 Oct 2021, 9:45 pm

Four of the world’s premier broker dealers have all signed development agreements with us necessitating us to bring on 15-20 developers.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

We need strong Core JAVA along with additional skillsets, such as Oracle, J2EE, Spring, GWT and or messaging, and preferably a background working for buy-side financials.

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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pc Senior Developer 27 Oct 2021, 9:43 pm

We have a 4 year project in Orange County California involving Portfolio Management applications. We are building a real-time risk management system that will automatically red flag any high risk trades or portfolio imbalances.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

We require:
Strong UNIX C++, OOP, multi-threading, design patterns, database skills (Oracle preferred)
Excellent problem solver
Can work autonomously and collaboratively and follows SDLC
Finance knowledge is a plus
Java experience preferred, but not required (the job will mostly entail C++ for the next 6 months)

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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NY Senior Developers 27 Oct 2021, 9:42 pm

Focus Capital has two extraordinary projects we are gearing up for. We need 40 developers for each one.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

The first is to create a new complex global mortgage backed securities system. This is a five year project that will require 40 new developers in our NY offices. Backgrounds should include C++, strong OO design and hands on multithreading. Things like integer ranges, thread-safe queues, string class, STL or Boost are expected to be used.

We also are looking for 40 people in NY for an Order management project that will revolutionize the way hedge funds and broker dealers trade. The technical requirements are the same as our MBS project.

In both instances we will accept non-financial backgrounds as long as the individuals show superior technical skills, excellent educations and impressive employed accomplishment.

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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MBS Modelers 27 Oct 2021, 9:40 pm

Looking for 6 PhD/Statistics/Economics or a related quantitative discipline with 1-5 years of mortgage modeling experience.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Our MBS analytic group has positions both in NYC and Washington DC and could be the best in the world. Our MD has the green light to add to the team. Modelers will work on prepayment models, Default Capital models, Severity Loss models, Loan Modification models, Interest rate models, Counterparty Credit Risk, mortgage rate propagation models, Stacr models, NPL valuation models and Agency distressed Asset pricing models. Proficiency in R is necessary for our NY team.

We pay for full relocation and living allowance if necessary.

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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Market Risk Quantitative Analysts 27 Oct 2021, 9:39 pm

Build and implement a global market risk framework for asset/liability global risk measurement. Focus Capital is putting together a Market Risk Management team to measure all types of risk; financial, insurance-related, and operational in one consistent framework that spans all risk-taking activities across all assets including real estate and structured products.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

The primary task is building a framework for market risk related to investments. The Market Risk framework measures risk across financial risk factors including IR, FX, Equity, Credit Default, Credit Spread, and Real Estate across its investment segments, namely:
Corporate
Residential Real Estate
Commercial Real Estate
Equity
Alternatives and Other Invested Assets.

We need individuals to have a sound knowledge of market risk management principles and a demonstrated history of extending these principles to new applications. The roles will require partnering with investment specialists to build a sound market risk framework to ensure that the businesses conform to the established risk appetite. This includes implementing house-level market risk and related policies, establishing limits, leading the development of market risk analytics and reports, monitoring existing activities and advising in regards to new investment activities or significant events in the marketplace.

The roles will report to the Market Risk Officer of Investments. and will regularly interact with business unit market risk and front office professionals across the Investments and Insurance businesses, IT, and other corporate units

Specific responsibilities include:
• Understand, monitor and report market risk exposures
• implementation of market risk metrics
• Establish market risk limits and authorities
• Ensure proper market risk governance as needed for Investment activities
• Partner with the Risk Architecture team in the development of a risk quantification, reporting and control infrastructure
• Partner with the Investment risk teams in assessing the risk and capital implications of new products and innovations
• Perform analysis related to market risk as needed to address ad-hoc requests

Position Requirements
• Masters in Financial Engineering/ Finance with a statistical/actuarial/mathematical focus preferred; alternatively, a BS/MS in Mathematics with practical business experience a plus
• 1-10++ years Risk Management and Product Valuation experience
• Experience with Credit Products
• Experience with Derivative Products
• Experience with Structured Products / Real Estate
• Practical business orientation (not an academic or theorist) and some business experience necessary
• Solid technical skills/education with a business orientation
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build consensus effectively
• Curious, inquisitive demeanor

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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Java – RW Java Developer 27 Oct 2021, 9:36 pm

Financial Industry leader for developing automated trading solutions for global equities, futures, options and FX seeks Java Developer. We seek bright enthusiastic individuals with strong Java skills.

To apply or for more information, email your resume to scott@focuscapital.com with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Requirements
• Must have at least 2-3 years of experience with Java
• Firm understanding of Java 1.6 core APIs, including collections, multi-threading, JavaBeans,
JDBC and XML technologies.
• Proven hands-on design and implementation experience in high-volume, high-performance
real-time information visualization systems.
• Solid object-oriented design skills.
• Experience in financial services a major plus, but other relevant industries will be considered
based on project depth.
• Knowledge of JMS or Swing and JIDE is a major plus.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Focus Capital Markets, for 45 years “Where Wall St. and Technology Meet.”

We are a proponent of diversity and encourage diversity hiring.

At Focus Capital Markets, we believe in efficiency. Rather than requesting you complete a time-consuming application, we simply ask you to email your resume to our firm with your name and the position with which you are interested in the subject line.

Compensation at Focus Capital is always the highest in the industry. Our developers average $200,000 and many make considerably more.  Apply now for consideration or email scott@focuscapital.com for more information.

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