Da Vinci
Website: https://www.davinciderivatives.com/
Da Vinci is a privately-funded company that is owned and managed by professionals who have set high standards around trading, technology and company culture.
Our Story
Da Vinci was founded in 2015 after a group of passionate trading experts found themselves desiring a new way of working.
At Da Vinci, our goal is to build the best proprietary trading house in the world. We strive to keep our work smart and creative, making the most of our team’s strategic minds to challenge existing ways of thinking. We’ve established a unique approach to trading and culture, emphasising openness and collaboration across departments.
We specialise in solving market inefficiencies, identifying opportunities based on volatility arbitrage strategies and providing liquidity to the markets.
We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market, Amsterdam, and have just opened a second office in Mumbai. Today, we trade on the most prominent exchanges across South America, Asia and the US. Our vision is set on sustainable growth, with new offices opening abroad soon.
Our Vision
Becoming the best in the world means building a team of first-rate talent with the most innovative ideas. The real value comes from how we work and grow together and you can find traders, developers and researchers working side by side every day and enjoying every minute of it. We are non-hierarchical and support employees as they explore different paths to find where their passion and talent aligns. No matter their role, everyone is key to sustainably growing Da Vinci.
We value innovation and excellence in everything we do, encouraging employees to take ownership of their work. We believe that our colleagues must consistently feel stimulated and supported in order to reach their full potential and achieve our ambitious goals.
Our Business
Da Vinci identifies and trades opportunities in financial derivatives based on in-house developed strategies with a short to medium term horizon focused on volatility. This can mean that multiple products are traded against each other based on correlations but also that long (short) positions in under- or overpriced volatilities are taken across asset classes.
By arbitraging and market making these differences Da Vinci helps markets to become more efficient providing benefits to end investors. The instruments traded include, but are not limited to:
options and futures on single stock equities
index and fixed income futures and options
options and futures on volatility indices and dividends
Da Vinci trades solely with its own money creating natural risk awareness and does not have any customers.
Our Company
Over the past couple of years Da Vinci has been growing successfully and will continue to do so. This growth is largely due to the experience within the company and the ability to attract the most talented people in the industry, train them, provide them with all the required tools, continuously challenge them and thus allowing them to grow both professionally and personally. Our business is highly innovative, IT driven and entrepreneurial by nature. As a company we strongly feel that attracting the best requires providing the best.
Contact details
Claude Debussylaan 16-6, 1082 Amsterdam
T 020 8915 760
E recruitment@davinciderivatives.com
Graduate Trader
https://davincitrading.com/job_openings/graduate-trader/
About Da Vinci
Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house founded in 2015 and specialised in solving market inefficiencies, identifying opportunities based on volatility arbitrage strategies and providing liquidity to the markets. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market, Amsterdam, and we have just opened a second office in Mumbai. Today, we trade on the most prominent exchanges across South America, Asia and the US. Our vision is set on sustainable growth, with new offices opening in the US soon.
We always keep our work smart and innovative and are building a team of trading enthusiasts. The key to our success is hiring not only intelligent but inventive, lazer-focused and highly efficient individuals. Across all departments; trading, quantitative research and development alike, Da Vinci is made up some of the sharpest minds and most passionate players in the industry. We are non-hierarchical and support employees in exploring their interests and strengths, placing no limit on personal growth.
About the Role
As a Graduate Trader at Da Vinci, you’ll work with a fun team of highly skilled researchers and engineers. Our Traders are key to developing and utilising algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities:
• Generate profits through volatility trading by position-taking and market making
• Risk management of your portfolio
• Improve and refine our trading infrastructure and setup
• Devise new trading strategies for current and prospective markets
• Evaluate prospective markets for opportunities
Requirements:
· Technical background (Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or similar quantitative studies)
· Strong interest in trading (Experience in real or simulated trading is a plus)
· Ability to make decisions under pressure
· Understanding of risk and reward patterns
· Strong affinity with numbers
· Good communication skills
· Attention to detail
· Analytical approach to solving complex problems
· Competitive but cooperative attitude
· Proactive and an entrepreneurial mindset
Benefits:
· A comprehensive theoretical and practical training program provided by our dedicated in-house trainer
· Sign-on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 80k
· Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
· Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
· A relocation package when moving from abroad, including flight coverage, temporary accommodation upon arrival, house-finding service and expat support
· Meals during work hours
· Social events and after-work drinks
· Reimbursement of travel costs
· Sponsored gym membership
· In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
Currently we are not offering internships or opportunities to write a thesis. This may change in the future. Please visit our website periodically and follow us on social media to stay up to date.
Graduate Quant Researcher
https://davincitrading.com/job_openings/quant-researcher/
About Da Vinci
Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house founded in 2015 and specialised in solving market inefficiencies, identifying opportunities based on volatility arbitrage strategies and providing liquidity to the markets. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market, Amsterdam, and we have just opened a second office in Mumbai. Today, we trade on the most prominent exchanges across South America, Asia and the US. Our vision is set on sustainable growth, with new offices opening in the US soon.
We always keep our work smart and innovative and are building a team of trading enthusiasts. The key to our success is hiring not only intelligent but inventive, lazer-focused and highly efficient individuals. Across all departments; trading, quantitative research and development alike, Da Vinci is made up some of the sharpest minds and most passionate players in the industry. We are non-hierarchical and support employees in exploring their interests and strengths, placing no limit on personal growth.
About the Role
As a Graduate Quant Researcher at Da Vinci, you’ll work alongside a fun team of highly skilled traders and engineers. Our Quant Researchers are key to developing and improving algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities:
· Analyse market data to build new trading strategies
· Develop tools that translate data analysis results into useful inputs for trading
· Continuously analyse and improve our existing strategies
· Improve and refine our data infrastructure and setup
· Evaluate prospective markets for opportunities
Requirements:
· Technical background (Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or similar quantitative studies)
· Programming knowledge in Python, MATLAB, R or C++
· Passion for research, in-depth analysis, and mathematical modelling
· Ability to understand mathematical theory and translate it into practice
· Good communication skills
· Attention to detail
· Analytical approach to solving complex problems
· Competitive but cooperative attitude
· Proactive and entrepreneurial mindset
Benefits
· A comprehensive theoretical and practical training program provided by our dedicated in-house trainer
· Sign-on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 80k
· Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
· Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
· A relocation package when moving from abroad, including flight coverage, temporary accommodation upon arrival, house-finding service and expat support
· Meals during work hours
· Social events and after-work drinks
· Reimbursement of travel costs
· Sponsored gym membership
· In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
Currently we are not offering internships or opportunities to write a thesis. This may change in the future. Please visit our website periodically and follow us on social media to stay up to date.
Graduate C++ Software Engineer
https://davincitrading.com/job_openings/graduate-c-software-engineer/
About Da Vinci
Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house founded in 2015 and specialised in solving market inefficiencies, identifying opportunities based on volatility arbitrage strategies and providing liquidity to the markets. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market, Amsterdam, and we have just opened a second office in Mumbai. Today, we trade on the most prominent exchanges across South America, Asia and the US. Our vision is set on sustainable growth, with new offices opening in the US soon.
We always keep our work smart and innovative and are building a team of trading enthusiasts. The key to our success is hiring not only intelligent but inventive, lazer-focused and highly efficient individuals. Across all departments; trading, quantitative research and development alike, Da Vinci is made up some of the sharpest minds and most passionate players in the industry. We are non-hierarchical and support employees in exploring their interests and strengths, placing no limit on personal growth.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer at Da Vinci, you’ll work closely with a team of highly skilled traders and quant researchers. You will have direct, immediate, and large-scale impact on the company, whether you focus on our trading algorithms or the architecture of our technology’s core components.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities:
Understand, design and implement trading algorithms and strategies in close collaboration with Trading and Research
Work closely with Trading, Research and MidOffice to automate and optimize their workflows, making sure that ‘the business’ runs as effectively and efficiently as possible
Various operational aspects, such as deploy, monitor and tweak systems
Requirements:
· A background in Computer Science or similar
· Highly skilled in C++
· Programming knowledge in Python is preferable but can otherwise be learned on the job
· Serious about code quality, taking full responsibility and accountability for your contributions
· Practical and results-driven attitude
· Ability to work well with others, including other departments, such as Trading and Research
Benefits:
· A comprehensive theoretical and practical training program provided by our dedicated in-house trainer
· Sign-on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 80k
· Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
· Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
· A relocation package when moving from abroad, including flight coverage, temporary accommodation upon arrival, house-finding service and expat support
· Meals during work hours
· Social events and after-work drinks
· Reimbursement of travel costs
· Sponsored gym membership
· In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)