Jane Street

FTR Trader

Jane Street  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

About the Position

We are looking to hire an experienced Financial Transmission Right (FTR) trader to help trade congestion products in multiple Independent System Operators/Regional Transmission Organizations (ISO/RTO), conduct research, and design trading strategies.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about this line of work and is eager to make an immediate impact. You will join our growing FTR team in New York and work alongside analysts and other experienced FTR traders, with the ability to collaborate with various trading desks across the firm. We’ll rely on your strong knowledge of the market to analyze trades and positions, examine trading ideas, and mentor analysts on the desk.

Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention — of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding function of our firm’s work, and we’ll endeavor to put your quick-thinking and problem-solving skills to good use.

About You

  • 2+ years of experience working as an FTR trader, or a similar role
  • Strong working knowledge of any ISO/RTO
  • Experience with the complete life cycle of a strategy and risk management of the portfolio
  • Experience with modeling and programming techniques
  • Analytical; comfortable leveraging probability and statistics to solve problems
  • Reliable and flexible team player with a positive attitude
  • Comfortable working and making decisions in a fast-paced environment
  • Motivated self-starter who can handle competing priorities
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Eager to learn, adaptive, responsible

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com

Jane Street

About Jane Street

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.

More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
2000
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