Quantitative Developer

Company Description

Forkast is a prediction market platform focused on sports, gaming, and cryptocurrency markets. Users can trade in markets focused on trending topics across sports, livestreaming, esports, and financial markets.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute high-frequency trading strategies during live sporting events and daily crypto price tracking markets.
• Plan, build, and maintain autonomous systems that execute and support market-making strategies on the exchange, with dynamic liquidity allocation driven by forecasting models and algorithms.
• Work on performance engineering to ensure the systems operate reliably and with low latency during live events and high-throughput periods
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers to implement forecasting models and algorithms in scalable, efficient production systems for real-time quoting and hedging
• Maintain accurate, organized records and audit trails of all executed trades and position states for compliance and post-trade analytics
• Handle large datasets; build forecasting models using historical pricing data and game data; combine bookmaker odds with proprietary models to generate fair prices and confidence intervals
• Utilize trading APIs (exchange and internal) to manage orders, inventory, and risk across multiple live markets simultaneously, including automated liquidity provision and position management.

Essential Qualifications

Education & Certifications

Professional Competencies

Work Requirements

Preferred Experience

Industry Background

Technical Expertise