About BestEx Research

BestEx Research is a financial technology and research firm specializing in building sophisticated execution algorithms and transaction cost modeling tools servicing multiple asset classes. The firm provides high-performance algorithmic execution services to hedge funds, CTAs, asset managers, and banks through a traditional electronic broker and in a broker-neutral Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Its cloud-based platform, Algo Management System (AMS), is the first end-to-end algorithmic trading solution for equities and futures that delivers an entire ecosystem around execution algorithms, including transaction cost analysis (TCA), an algorithm customization tool called Strategy Studio, a trading dashboard, and pre-trade analytics in a single platform. The platform is currently live for U.S., Europe, and Canadian equities and global futures trading.

BestEx Research is disrupting a $100 billion industry by challenging the status quo of stale, black-box solutions from banks and offering next-generation execution algorithms that combine performance improvement with transparency and customization. BestEx Research uses leading-edge technology to support its low-latency, highly scalable research and trading systems, with its backend in C++, research libraries in C++/Python and R, and web-based technologies for delivering its front-end platforms.

BestEx Research’s mission is to become the leader in automation and measurement of execution across asset classes globally and significantly reduce transaction costs for our clients.

Description

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• Building out a sophisticated European Equity algorithmic product working closely with the global algorithmic trading product, research and development team 
• Act in the capacity of product specialist to help sales team pitch the product to European clients 
• Understanding the competitive landscape, analyzing strengths and weaknesses of the BestEx Research products, analyzing client pain points and translating to a roadmap for the product and building concrete requirements
• Understanding clients trading workflow with BestEx product end to end and help improve the processes 
• Provide execution services and support to clients as we grow the product and expand the team  
• Running Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) of the product, developing a good understanding of BestEx Research algorithms and TCA framework, and coming up with ways to improve the product performance.
• Develop good understanding of clients order flow and risk aversion;  tailor and optimize the algorithms for clients unique requirements and order flow
• Managing relationships with trading venues, upstream vendors, downstream broker-dealer and other liquidity partners
• Keeping abreast of market structure changes and the liquidity landscape, evaluating the impact of those changes on our product suite and recommending solutions to benefit from those changes

Requirements

• Expert level understanding of the equity market structure in Europe 
• Expert level understanding and experience with algorithmic trading, ideally in capacity of designing execution algorithms. 
• Expertise in transaction cost analysis, and a good understanding of drivers of trading costs 
• Experience with data analysis languages such as R or Python. Good understanding of data science. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present complex technical ideas to clients 
• Good relationship with the sell-side and buy-side firms is a plus
• Prior experience in coding production level software is a plus but not required 
• Good understanding of back office functions is a plus but not required 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a quantitative field