Head of Quant
NEXT Ventures
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Remote
Contract type: Full time
Remote
Who We Are
NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Build the Quant Stack (0 → 1)
This is a rare opportunity to build a hedge-fund-grade system from the ground up, backed by the data and capital of one of the world's fastest-growing prop firms. You will not be a cog in a machine; you will be the engine builder.
The future of fintech is algorithmic. Come build it with us.
NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Build the Quant Stack (0 → 1)
- Design and develop the full trading system:
- Data pipeline
- Backtesting framework
- Execution infrastructure
- Monitoring & analytics
- Work with tick-level and real-time trading data
- Build and deploy systematic strategies (MM / stat arb / execution)
- Optimize execution, slippage, and liquidity usage
- Continuously iterate strategies based on performance
- Extract value from trading flow and user behavior
- Design hedging and internalization logic
- Identify and exploit inefficiencies across cohorts
- Generate signals from:
- Market data
- Trader behavior and cohorts
- Build and maintain backtesting and evaluation frameworks
- Transition strategies from simulation to live trading
- Monitor performance, risk, and capital efficiency
- Continuously improve strategy robustness
- Own strategy performance and PnL
- Operate independently in a fast-moving environment
- Build and lead the quant team over time
- Must Have
- Proven experience building end-to-end trading systems (0→1)
- Strong programming skills (Python required; C++ is a plus)
- Hands-on experience in:
- Market making OR
- Statistical arbitrage OR
- Execution strategies
- Deep understanding of:
- Market microstructure
- Liquidity, spreads, and slippage
- Experience taking strategies from idea → backtest → live
- Experience in:
- CFD brokers / market making / central risk book
- Multi-asset trading (FX, equities, crypto, futures)
- Familiarity with:
- Tick-level data
- Low-latency systems
- Time-series databases (e.g. KDB)
- 30 minute HR interview with the Talent Acquisition team member
- 45 minute Session (with talent acquisition team & department front line manager)
- 60-minute Final Interview Session (with head of department & talent acquisition lead)
This is a rare opportunity to build a hedge-fund-grade system from the ground up, backed by the data and capital of one of the world's fastest-growing prop firms. You will not be a cog in a machine; you will be the engine builder.
The future of fintech is algorithmic. Come build it with us.
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