Deeper Research. Precise Execution.

深入研究,精准执行

A QUANTITATIVE TRADING COMPANY UNDER AVENIR GROUP

About

About DeepTrading

We are building a multi-billion-dollar quantitative management platform, with a technology stack and operating standards fully benchmarked against world-class high-frequency trading firms. Here, you will tackle ultra-low-latency trading challenges across all markets and asset classes, while embedding cutting-edge AI throughout the development, testing, and iteration of our trading systems — driving decisions with algorithms and reshaping efficiency with computing power.

{"Backed by substantial proprietary capital and long-term strategic investment, the company provides a solid foundation for the platform's steady growth. Our management deeply values technology": 'the core team is composed of top-tier technologists and architecture leads from leading quantitative institutions. We treat technology as the primary productive force and respect the creativity behind every line of code. Riding the trend, we are actively expanding global market access, with deployments across multiple regions and a steadily growing footprint.'}

In this high-growth phase, the company offers maximal support across R&D, talent, and infrastructure, driving the co-evolution of team and business through agile iteration and an engineering culture. We believe in transparency, truth-seeking, and the geek spirit — and that technology should benefit society at large.

The group has long upheld the philosophy of "technology for good," continuously supporting educational philanthropy and research incentive programs, and providing donations and talent development funds to top universities at home and abroad — advancing frontier disciplines and nurturing the innovators of tomorrow. We trade markets, but more importantly, we invest in the future.

—— Avenir DeepTrading. Deeper Research. Precise Execution.

Hackathon

Hackathon Challenge · Season 1

Avenir Group's internal quantitative strategy challenge: build strategies with DPAI, validate in simulation, then compete on the leaderboard under unified rules.

TRACKS

Three Tracks

Arbitrage · Neutral · Open strategies, scored and ranked independently; one final strategy per track

TIMELINE

Timeline

Sep 3 registration → Sep 14 simulated leaderboard → Oct 8 strategy lock-in → Oct 9–31 official competition → Nov 6 results

SCORING

Scoring

Total return 50% · Sharpe ratio 30% · Max drawdown 20%, percentile-weighted

PRIZES

Prizes

Avenir Alpha Grand Prize; Gold / Excellence / Rising Star awards per track

Live Leaderboard T-2 daily carry-forward · Updated daily

RankParticipantTrackTotal ReturnSharpeMax DrawdownNAV
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Careers

Join Us

The following positions are open long-term. Please send your resume to [email protected]. Compensation is negotiable for all roles.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of system architecture for trading, backtesting, risk control, and capital management
  • Optimize the distributed backtesting framework to support high-frequency factor computation and large-scale historical data validation
  • Build a comprehensive system monitoring stack to keep the production trading environment stable
  • Work closely with the strategy team to deliver high-performance backtesting platforms and trading systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or above from a top university in mathematics, computer science, financial engineering, or related STEM fields; 3+ years of experience
  • Expert in C++ with proven ability to develop large-scale codebases
  • Industry-agnostic — experience with large-scale infrastructure projects is a plus (distributed computing, storage, deep learning platforms, etc.)

Responsibilities · Strategy Implementation & Optimization

  • Implement quantitative trading strategies for equities, futures, options, and innovative financial products, translating researchers' logic into efficient, robust C++ code
  • Profile and optimize existing strategies to reduce latency and improve execution efficiency
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of the strategy backtesting system, ensuring accurate and reliable results

Responsibilities · Low-Latency Trading Systems

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance low-latency trading systems spanning order management, risk management, market data processing, and exchange connectivity
  • Optimize system architecture to eliminate latency from thread contention, memory allocation, and system calls
  • Integrate and maintain exchange market data and trading interfaces (CTP, UST, FIX, etc.)

Responsibilities · Data Processing & Analytics

  • Design and maintain high-performance data pipelines for tick-level and millisecond market data
  • Build tooling for data cleaning, alignment, and factor computation, providing high-quality data for strategy research

Responsibilities · Stability & Monitoring

  • Establish monitoring and alerting for trading systems to keep production trading running stably
  • Rapidly diagnose and resolve live system issues; participate in incident reviews and improvements

Responsibilities · Research & Innovation

  • Track frontier technologies — new C++ standards, low-latency techniques, hardware acceleration (FPGA, DPDK) — and drive continuous system evolution
  • Contribute to the quantitative trading framework and toolchain, raising the team's overall R&D efficiency

Requirements · Education & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics, or related fields
  • 3+ years of C++ development experience; quantitative trading, HFT, or low-latency systems experience preferred

Requirements · Technical Skills

  • Expert in C++11/14/17; familiar with STL, template programming, multithreading, memory management, and performance tuning
  • Comfortable developing and debugging on Linux (GCC / GDB / Perf / Valgrind); proficient in Shell / Python scripting
  • Solid network programming skills (TCP/IP, Socket, ZeroMQ) with a deep understanding of low-latency network optimization
  • Familiarity with trading interface protocols (CTP, FIX, Binary, etc.) is a plus
  • Familiarity with quantitative strategy concepts (factors, backtesting, risk control) is a plus

Requirements · General Qualities

  • Good engineering habits — clear, maintainable, testable code; familiar with Git and CI/CD workflows
  • Strong problem analysis and localization skills; able to resolve complex system issues under pressure
  • Genuine interest in quantitative trading; strong teamwork and communication skills

Nice to Have

  • Experience building proprietary low-latency trading frameworks or middleware
  • Familiarity with time-series databases such as KDB+/q or ClickHouse
  • Experience at a top quantitative hedge fund or proprietary trading firm

Responsibilities

  • Participate in designing and building high-performance trading systems, distributed backtesting platforms, real-time risk control, and core capital management architecture
  • Under guidance, optimize the large-scale distributed backtesting framework — supporting high-frequency factor computation, massive historical data simulation, and faster strategy iteration
  • Help build end-to-end system monitoring to ensure high availability and stability of the production trading environment, and quickly locate performance bottlenecks
  • Under guidance, work deeply with the strategy research team to build an integrated low-latency, high-throughput backtesting and trading platform, and explore the engineering deployment of AI models in trade execution and signal generation

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or above from a top university in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, financial engineering, or related STEM fields (CS preferred)
  • Strong C++ skills; familiar with C++17/20; solid data structures and algorithms; experience with large-scale codebases and performance tuning
  • Familiar with Linux systems programming, network programming, and multithreaded concurrency, with good engineering habits
  • Experience with large-scale infrastructure projects is a plus (distributed computing / storage, HPC, deep learning training platforms, etc.)
  • Final-year students and interns are welcome; we provide a complete mentorship and hands-on growth program

Nice to Have

  • ICPC / CCPC regional silver medal or above
  • AI development experience; familiar with TensorFlow / PyTorch; understanding of model inference optimization or reinforcement learning applications in finance

Responsibilities · Test Frameworks & Tooling

  • Design and develop automated testing frameworks for quantitative trading systems, covering unit, integration, stress, and regression testing
  • Build simulated trading environments for end-to-end strategy and system testing, ensuring model-to-execution consistency
  • Develop performance testing tools to precisely measure latency, throughput, and jitter

Responsibilities · Trading System Quality

  • Own quality assurance for the core trading engine, order management system (OMS), risk control, and market data gateways
  • Design test cases for high-frequency trading scenarios covering edge cases, failure modes, and concurrency conflicts
  • Participate in code reviews, advising on testability and robustness

Responsibilities · Backtest & Strategy Validation

  • Build validation mechanisms for the backtesting framework to ensure live-backtest consistency; identify and fix the backtest-to-live gap
  • Help quantitative researchers verify strategy logic — factor computation, signal generation, and order execution correctness

Responsibilities · CI/CD & Quality Infrastructure

  • Build CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment on every commit
  • Establish quality metrics — coverage, defect rate, system stability — and drive continuous improvement
  • Participate in production incident reviews and write regression tests to prevent recurrence

Requirements · Education

  • Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, electronic engineering, automation, or related fields

Requirements · Professional Skills

  • Proficient in Python, C++, or Java, with good code style and design pattern awareness
  • Familiar with mainstream test frameworks (pytest, Google Test, JUnit); experience building test automation frameworks
  • Skilled with CI/CD tooling such as Git, Jenkins, and Docker
  • Solid SQL; familiarity with time-series databases (ClickHouse, InfluxDB) is a plus

Requirements · Experience

  • 5+ years in test development or software development (flexible for junior roles)
  • Experience testing financial trading systems, quantitative platforms, or low-latency systems preferred
  • Experience with performance testing, chaos engineering, or stability engineering preferred

Requirements · General Qualities

  • Relentless pursuit of quality with strong ownership and risk awareness
  • Rigorous logic; adept at spotting edge cases and latent issues
  • Strong communication skills across engineering, research, and trading teams

Nice to Have

  • Knowledge of financial trading — order types, market microstructure, the FIX protocol
  • Experience with chaos engineering tools (Chaos Mesh, Gremlin) or production stability drills
  • Experience developing or validating quantitative backtesting systems
  • CFA Level I passed, or an equivalent finance background

Submit your resume:[email protected]

Avenir Group

Standing with a Larger Financial Innovation Network

01

Group Backing

A high-frequency trading company under Avenir Group, leveraging the group's global footprint and resource network

02

Long-term Investment

Substantial proprietary capital and long-term strategic commitment, with multi-region deployment and a growing footprint

03

Technology for Good

Long-standing support for educational philanthropy and research incentives at top universities worldwide

Technology-Driven

Proprietary low-latency trading and market data systems with full-stack control from network path to strategy execution — optimization down to the instruction and cache level.

Global Vision

Coverage of major global crypto exchanges, running 24/7, with cross-region infrastructure and multi-market data synergy.

AI-Native

AI is deeply embedded in R&D, testing, and research workflows; the DPAI platform keeps shortening the path from strategy idea to live validation.