Senior Algorithms & Machine Learning Developer

About Us

Algfa is a research-driven startup, developing automated trading strategies for financial markets.

After four years of good track record - we are growing ...

Who You Are

• You are a blend of curious researcher, talented engineer & efficient coder.
• You love your work and thrive on puzzles, challenges and data-driven decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Research & Experiment with new ideas for signals, features, and trading methods in python. Explore new data sources, new ML techniques, with focus on what produces the strongest impact.
• Apply your findings: to live trading system, using performance optimizations, and robust coding.

Must-Have Qualifications

• MSc. CS / EE / Applied Sci & Math - from leading Universities , preferably with honors
• Significant Machine learning Experience - Classical ML Time Series, Feature Engineering, via previous jobs / Kaggle competitions. Deep Learning experience for time series / tabular data - a plus
• Data Science Python stack - significant experience in numpy, pandas, sklearn, jupyter notebooks, .
• Python Expert - High Performance Coding using Multiprocessing, Asyncio , Numba / Cython.
• Not required - Prior exposure to financial markets or trading strategies -

Why You’ll Love This Role

• High Stakes, Fast-Paced & Direct Impact: Your code will have measurable effects on P&L.
• Challenging & Interesting Tasks compete in a global algorithmic arena, where continuous improvement is a must.
• Be Part of the Core Team: Work on high-impact tasks, together with company founders.

Why you may *Not* like this role :)

• Work is mostly onsite from Hod Hasharon. (nice office but slightly inconvenient via public transport)
• 100% hand-on (but as an expert you will have ownership of tasks and independence).

Ready to take on the challenge? Apply now and help us push the boundaries of algorithmic trading.