Equity Arbitrage Developer

Job Description:

Delta One Quantitative Developer

Jain Global, LLC  

Jain Global is an innovative multi-strategy investment firm founded in July 2024 by Bobby Jain with over 400 employees operating from offices in New York, Houston, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong, we are looking to add to our growing teams.   

Role Overview

We are looking for a Developer to join our New York City Delta One team, working directly with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Quants on the Delta One desk. This role is ideal for a Python superstar who thrives in a fast-paced, trading-aligned environment and can deliver high-performance tools and infrastructure that directly impact business outcomes. You’ll operate at the intersection of trading, quant, and platform engineering, building systems that power execution, risk, and analytics for Delta One strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with PMs, Traders, and Desk Analysts to design and implement real-time trading tools, risk dashboards, and data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain scalable applications and services that support Delta One and equity derivatives trading workflows.
• Serve as a hands-on “carpenter”, building robust systems from the ground up—owning projects end-to-end, from architecture to deployment.
• Ensure system reliability, latency performance, and data integrity across front-office components.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to leverage core services and ensure alignment with best practices.
• Support the desk with fast, high-quality delivery while maintaining long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Promote modern software engineering practices across testing, CI/CD, and observability.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in front-office or risk-aligned software development roles, preferably within a macro trading environment
• Expert-level proficiency in Python—capable of writing clean, performant, and production-quality code.
• Experience developing within front-office or risk-aligned environments, ideally supporting Delta One, equities, or derivatives desks.
• Strong understanding of financial markets; macro or cross-asset knowledge is a plus.
• Proven ability to work independently within a trading desk, managing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills—able to interface effectively with PMs, traders, and business leads.
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Passion for building technology that delivers measurable business value.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and cloud-native tools.
• Proven ability to deliver both tactical and strategic solutions under evolving business needs
• Strong communication and documentation skills; able to translate business problems into scalable technical solutions

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

As an employer, we believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of Jain Global teams to drive competitive performance. We believe an inclusive environment can yield exceptional contributions.

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