Atto Trading

Junior Data Scientist/Quant Researcher Internship — 
Your Entry Point Into the World of High-Frequency Trading

Are you passionate about data analysis? Do you thrive on competitions, love solving unconventional problems, and want to test yourself in an industry where every nanosecond counts?

Join us for a paid internship at Atto Trading — an American HFT firm that builds high-frequency trading algorithms for U.S. financial markets.

💼 About Atto Trading — Where Engineering Meets Finance

Atto Trading is an American tech-driven trading company that builds and runs high-frequency, algorithmic strategies on financial markets.
 

We’re a small, focused team of engineers, traders, and researchers who:

• 💡 Turn ideas into profitable strategies
• 🇺🇸 Operate on U.S. financial markets
• 🧠 Constantly learn and tackle hard technical challenges together
• 🛠 Build ultra-fast, rock-solid software
   

As an intern, you won’t be stuck on side tasks — you’ll be a real part of the engineering team from day one.

🧠 During the internship, you will do:

• Analyze large datasets of market data using Polars, SQLAlchemy, scikit-learn, etc
• Build ipynb reports and interactive visualizations using Bokeh or Shiny-Plotly that provide real value
• Work with private analytical tools to create pipelines for subindicator generation
• Collaborate with engineers, traders, and analysts in a real-world business environment
   

📌 Program Details

• 🗓 Duration: 4 weeks, summer (August)
   
• 📍 Location: Ukraine in-office (Lviv) 
   
• 💼 Format: Paid internship
   
• 🏆 One top-performing intern will be offered a full-time or part-time role (depending on academic commitments)
   
• 🎁 The selected intern will receive an iPad as part of the welcome package from Atto Trading
  
   

This is a unique opportunity to gain real-world experience in high-frequency trading (HFT) — where analytics, precision, and speed determine success.

Please note: This internship is intended for candidates located in Ukraine. 

Please briefly describe your key achievements (academic, project-based, volunteer, or personal) in your CV.

About Us:

Atto Trading is a dynamic quantitative trading firm at the forefront of global high-frequency strategies. We are seeking a C++ Software Engineer to join our growing team. 

This is a remote-first position based in Ukraine, with occasional in-office presence in Kyiv expected when conditions permit.

We are expanding an international, diverse team, with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach combined with rapid market feedback allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort. 


What You’ll Do:

• Design and deploy performance-critical components for large-scale trading infrastructure.
• Develop high-frequency trading (HFT) systems in C++ with an emphasis on low latency and reliability.
• Write modern, efficient code using the latest C++ standards.
• Interface directly with cutting-edge networking hardware via kernel-bypassing drivers.
• Conduct performance research to push the boundaries of our platform's speed and scalability.
  
   

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with C++ development.
• Deep understanding of C++ standards (C++14, C++17; C++20 is a strong plus).
• Hands-on experience with Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Proficiency with Linux environments and system-level programming.
• Solid grasp of multithreading, IPC, and concurrent systems.
• Strong skills in latency and throughput optimization, including experience with profiling and PGO.
• Knowledge of OOP and software design patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Excellent attention to detail, with a critical and quality-focused mindset.
• Comfortable working independently or in small teams in a dynamic, high-speed environment.
• Strong communication skills and upper-intermediate (or higher) English proficiency.
• Curiosity and passion for financial markets and trading.
  
   

Nice to have:

• Experience developing high-performance, low-latency systems on Linux.
• Familiarity with OS internals and kernel-level networking.
• Understanding of financial instruments such as stocks, ETFs, futures, or options.
• Protocol-level networking knowledge (TCP/UDP/IP stack insights are a plus).

What we Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Healthcare & Sports/gym budget
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Relocation support (where applicable)
• International team meet-ups
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches

Our motivation:

We are a company committed to staying at the forefront of technology. Our team is passionate about continual learning and improvement. With no external investors or customers, we are the primary users of the products we create, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact on our company's growth.

Ready to advance your career? Join our innovative team and help shape the future of trading on a global scale. Apply now and let's create the future together!

About Us:

Atto Trading is a dynamic quantitative trading firm at the forefront of global high-frequency strategies. We are seeking a C++ Software Engineer to join our growing team. 

This position is open for relocation for in-office presence to Lisbon, Portugal or remote work from Ukraine, with in-office presence in Kyiv required once circumstances allow.

We are expanding an international, diverse team, with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach combined with rapid market feedback allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort. 


What You’ll Do:

• Design and deploy performance-critical components for large-scale trading infrastructure.
• Develop high-frequency trading (HFT) systems in C++ with an emphasis on low latency and reliability.
• Write modern, efficient code using the latest C++ standards.
• Interface directly with cutting-edge networking hardware via kernel-bypassing drivers.
• Conduct performance research to push the boundaries of our platform's speed and scalability.
  
   

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with C++ development.
• Deep understanding of C++ standards (C++14, C++17; C++20 is a strong plus).
• Hands-on experience with Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Proficiency with Linux environments and system-level programming.
• Solid grasp of multithreading, IPC, and concurrent systems.
• Strong skills in latency and throughput optimization, including experience with profiling and PGO.
• Knowledge of OOP and software design patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Excellent attention to detail, with a critical and quality-focused mindset.
• Comfortable working independently or in small teams in a dynamic, high-speed environment.
• Strong communication skills and upper-intermediate (or higher) English proficiency.
• Curiosity and passion for financial markets and trading.
  
   

Nice to have:

• Experience developing high-performance, low-latency systems on Linux.
• Familiarity with OS internals and kernel-level networking.
• Understanding of financial instruments such as stocks, ETFs, futures, or options.
• Protocol-level networking knowledge (TCP/UDP/IP stack insights are a plus).

What we Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Healthcare & Sports/gym budget
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Relocation support (where applicable)
• International team meet-ups
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches

Our motivation:

We are a company committed to staying at the forefront of technology. Our team is passionate about continual learning and improvement. With no external investors or customers, we are the primary users of the products we create, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact on our company's growth.

Ready to advance your career? Join our innovative team and help shape the future of trading on a global scale. Apply now and let's create the future together!

About Us:

Atto Trading, a dynamic quantitative trading firm founded in 2010 and leading in global high-frequency strategies, is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team.

We are expanding an international, diverse team with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach, combined with rapid market feedback, allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort. 

Role Highlights:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain our comprehensive Data Lake for a fast-growing number of research and production datasets. This role combines hardware and platform infrastructure expertise with data engineering excellence to support our rapidly growing data assets (~200TB current, scaling ~100TB/year). 
 

Responsibilities:

• Architect and manage high-performance, scalable on-premise data storage systems optimized for large-scale data access and analytics workloads
• Configure and maintain compute clusters for distributed data processing
• Plan capacity and scalability roadmaps to accommodate 100TB+ annual data growth
• Design and implement efficient monitoring and alerting systems to forecast growth trends and proactively react to critical states
• Design, create, automate, and maintain various data pipelines
• Enhance existing and setup new “data checks” and alerts to determine when the data is “bad”
• Design and implement a comprehensive on-premise Data Lake system connected to VAST storage solution for normalized market data across:
  • US Equities, US Futures, and SIP feeds
  • Other market data sources that will be further added
  • Security Definition data for various markets
  • Various private column data
• Build and operate end‑to‑end data pipelines and SLA/SLO monitoring to ensure data quality, completeness, and governance
• Analyze existing data models, usage patterns, and access frequencies to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
• Develop metadata and catalog layers for efficient data discovery and self‑service access
• Design and deploy event‑driven architectures for near real‑time market data processing and delivery
• Orchestrate ETL/ELT data pipelines using tools like Prefect (or Airflow), ensuring robustness, observability, and clear operational ownership
• Ensure fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability across existing systems
• Partner with traders, quantitative researchers, and other stakeholders to understand use cases and continuously improve the usability, performance, and reliability of the Data Lake  

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles
• Proven experience with large‑scale data infrastructure (hundreds of TBs of data, high‑throughput pipelines)
• Strong understanding of market data formats and financial data structures (e.g., trades, quotes, order books, corporate actions)
• Experience designing and modernizing data infrastructure within on-premise solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field required; Master’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience

Tech Skills:

• Data Engineering - Spark, Iceberg (or similar table formats), Trino/Presto, Parquet optimization
• ETL pipelines - Prefect/Airflow or similar DAG-oriented tools
• Infrastructure - High-performance networking and compute
• Storage Systems - High-performance distributed storage, NAS/SAN, object storage
• Networking - Low-latency networking (aware about DPDK and kernel bypass technologies. Data center infrastructure basics
• Programming - Python (production‑grade), SQL, building APIs (e.g., FastAPI)
• Data Analysis - Advanced SQL, Tableau (or similar BI tools), data profiling tools

Nice to have:

• Experience in HFT or financial services
• Background in high‑frequency trading (HFT) or quantitative finance

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Healthcare & Sports/gym budget
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Relocation support (where applicable)
• International team meet-ups
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches
   

Our motivation:

We are a company committed to staying at the forefront of technology. Our team is passionate about continual learning and improvement. With no external investors or customers, we are the primary users of the products we create, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact on our company's growth.

Ready to advance your career? Join our innovative team and help shape the future of trading on a global scale. Apply now and let's create the future together!

About us:

Atto Trading, a dynamic quantitative trading firm founded in 2010 and leading in global high-frequency strategies.
We are expanding an international, diverse team with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach, combined with rapid market feedback, allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort. 

Role Highlights: 

We’re looking for a Junior Talent Sourcer / Recruiter to help identify and engage exceptional technical and quantitative talent. You will support sourcing, outreach, and interview coordination while learning to operate in a fast-paced, high-standard environment. 
This role is ideal for someone ambitious, detail-oriented, and motivated by performance and impact.

Please note: This role requires in-office presence in one of our locations - Kyiv, Ukraine or Lisbon, Portugal.

Responsibilities: 

• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for highly selective technical roles (quant research, software engineering, trading operations, infrastructure) to support current and future hiring needs.
• Proactively source, identify, research, and engage active and passive candidates via LinkedIn, GitHub, Djinni, job boards, referrals, and niche communities (quant, code/dev, competitive programming), leveraging creative sourcing strategies (Boolean search, social networks, community channels).
• Identify and shortlist relevant profiles based on experience, achievements, tech stack, and location.
• Conduct initial screening, including resume evaluation against role requirements.
• Run outreach campaigns and manage candidate engagement, including personalized messaging, follow-ups, screening requests, and pipeline nurturing.
• Partner with senior recruiters and hiring managers to support the full recruitment cycle, including interview coordination, scheduling, and calendar management.
• Maintain and update the ATS, ensure accurate daily candidate status tracking, and support overall pipeline hygiene.
• Support market and talent research (hiring trends, layoffs, competitors, new sourcing channels).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Upper-Intermediate or higher level of English.
• 2+ years of experience in technical recruitment, talent sourcing, or recruitment coordination in a fast-paced environment (software, fintech, gamedev or similar).
• Experience sourcing/recruiting in the US market.
• Proactive sourcing skills (LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search).
• Proficiency with modern recruiting tools (including LLM-based tools).
• Experience with ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, or similar) is highly beneficial.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently, proactively in a fast-paced, high-performance environment with high-quality standards.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail.
• Ownership mindset.
• Interest in the trading domain will be a plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Healthcare and sports/gym budget
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Relocation support (where applicable)
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Clear growth opportunities within the recruitment team
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches
• International team meet-ups

Our motivation:

We are a company committed to staying at the forefront of technology. Our team is passionate about continual learning and improvement. With no external investors or customers, we are the primary users of the products we create, allowing you to make a real impact on our company's growth.

Ready to advance your career? Join our innovative team and help shape the future of trading on a global scale. Apply now and let's create the future together!

About Us:

Atto Trading is a quantitative trading firm operating a portfolio of signal-driven high-frequency strategies in cash equities and futures.

We are looking for a Trading Operations Specialist to join our team. As we expand into new markets, it's an especially exciting moment to join our international and diverse group of experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach combined with rapid market feedback allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. We work in an environment of learning & collaboration, which allows us to solve the world’s hardest problems, together.

As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort.

What we do:

We trade stocks, and futures almost on all US exchanges such as: NASDAQ, NYSE, ARCA, EQ Cboe, CME, CFE, etc.

Position Highlights:

• You’ll have a unique opportunity to combine software engineering with real-world finance from day one. 
• In this role, you’ll apply your engineering skills directly to live trading and financial markets.
   

Advantages of our Company:

• A company that continually invests in updating the technology stack.
• Creative approach in choosing the hardware and software for the work you do.
• A great team with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
• No external clients, we are the only users of the products we create.
• Opportunity to have an impact on the company's bottom line by holding a significant position in the company.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and manage Atto Trading’s automated trading systems, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operations.
• Automate and optimize trading support workflows and pipelines using Python and Bash scripting.
• Partner with software engineering teams to enhance and maintain trading infrastructure and internal monitoring systems. 
• Collaborate with traders, engineers, brokers, and exchanges to resolve intraday issues in real time. 
• Support daily risk operations by generating reports and executing defined risk procedures.
• Document production incidents and maintain comprehensive logs and monitoring protocols.
• Assisting with new market deployments by collaborating with internal teams on infrastructure and connectivity.
• Manage and maintain enterprise systems related to pipeline scheduling, software releases, and operational monitoring.

Requirements:

• Strong Python programming skills with ability to write clean, reliable code with minimal supervision.
• Solid working knowledge of Linux (command line, basic system understanding).
• Skilled in data visualization, manipulation, and processing for operational insight.
• Highly detail-oriented with rigorous standards and a critical, analytical mindset.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks and follow clearly defined processes and priorities.
• Strong analytical mindset and willingness to investigate issues independently.
• Strong interest in trading and financial markets, prior domain experience is not required but advantageous.
• Graduate degree in statistics, mathematics, science, or another quantitative discipline.
  
  Benefits:
• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Relocation support 
• International team meet-ups
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches

Atto Trading, a dynamic quantitative trading firm founded in 2010 and leading in global high-frequency strategies.
We are expanding an international, diverse team with experts in trading, statistics, engineering, and technology. Our disciplined approach, combined with rapid market feedback, allows us to quickly turn ideas into profit. Our environment of learning and collaboration allows us to solve some of the world’s hardest problems, together. As a small firm, we remain nimble and hold ourelves to the highest standards of integrity, ingenuity, and effort. 

Role Highlights: 

We’re looking for a Junior Talent Sourcer / Recruiter to help identify and engage exceptional technical and quantitative talent. You will support sourcing, outreach, and interview coordination while learning to operate in a fast-paced, high-standard environment. 
This role is ideal for someone ambitious, detail-oriented, and motivated by performance and impact.

Responsibilities: 

• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for highly selective technical roles (quant research, software engineering, trading operations, infrastructure) to support current and future hiring needs.
• Proactively source, identify, research, and engage active and passive candidates via LinkedIn, GitHub, Djinni, job boards, referrals, and niche communities (quant, code/dev, competitive programming), leveraging creative sourcing strategies (Boolean search, social networks, community channels).
• Identify and shortlist relevant profiles based on experience, achievements, tech stack, and location.
• Conduct initial screening, including resume evaluation against role requirements.
• Run outreach campaigns and manage candidate engagement, including personalized messaging, follow-ups, screening requests, and pipeline nurturing.
• Partner with senior recruiters and hiring managers to support the full recruitment cycle, including interview coordination, scheduling, and calendar management.
• Maintain and update the ATS, ensure accurate daily candidate status tracking, and support overall pipeline hygiene.
• Track sourcing and outreach metrics.
• Support market and talent research (hiring trends, layoffs, competitors, new sourcing channels).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Psychology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in technical recruitment, talent sourcing, or recruitment coordination in a fast-paced environment (software, quant, fintech, Big Tech, finance, trading, or similar).
• Experience sourcing/recruiting in the US market.
• Proven ability to manage interview scheduling and coordination with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong proactive sourcing skills (LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search).
• Solid understanding of building pipelines for highly selective technical talent, including sourcing strategy, engagement, and funnel management.
• Proficiency with modern recruiting tools (including LLM-based tools); experience with ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, or similar) is highly beneficial.
• Upper-Intermediate or higher level of English.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and effectively engage candidates and stakeholders at all levels.
• Proactive and structured approach to work.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-performance environment with high-quality standards.
• Strong prioritization skills, stress resilience, and attention to detail.
• Growth-oriented mindset with a track record of ownership and accountability.
• Exposure to software engineering or financial markets recruitment.
• Strong interest in algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading environments.
  Benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (25 days)
• Healthcare and sports/gym budget
• Mental health support, including access to therapy
• Relocation support (where applicable)
• Learning and development support, including courses and certifications
• Clear growth opportunities within the recruitment team
• Access to professional tools, software, and resources
• Fully equipped workstations with high-quality hardware
• Modern office with paid lunches
• International team meet-ups