The work is the perk.
No slides about culture. Here is how the firm actually runs, what we pay for, and what it feels like to sit at the desk. If this page reads like somewhere you would do your best work, the door is on the careers page.
One loop, no silos
Traders, researchers and engineers sit in a single performance loop. A researcher's idea reaches the trader who will run it and the engineer who will ship it in the same conversation, usually the same hour. There is no ticket queue between a good idea and a live experiment.
What that means for you: your work is never anonymous. When your model or your code moves the number, everyone knows it was yours, and so do you.
Measured, not managed
We do not count hours, count keystrokes, or run stand-ups about stand-ups. We measure outcomes: did the strategy make money after costs, did the system stay up, was the research honest about its own uncertainty. Everything else is your call.
The flip side is real: the numbers are visible, and "I was busy" is not a result. People who prefer effort to be its own reward tend to be unhappy here.
Pay follows the P&L
Competitive fixed pay so nobody trades scared, and a performance pool that follows what the firm actually makes. The principle is simple: if the loop performs, everyone in the loop is paid like it. We would rather explain a big bonus than a big title.
Teaching is part of the job
Every senior person here mentors, formally or not. Interns get weekly line-by-line reviews. The mentorship program runs on the same people. If you cannot explain your edge to a smart first-year, we do not fully believe you have one.
The stack is a choice, not an inheritance
Python for research, C++ and Rust where latency is the product, and cloud infrastructure where elasticity beats iron. The codebase is young enough that the architecture is still being decided, by the people who will live with it.
Sydney, deliberately
The trading day starts here before almost anywhere else. We work from Sydney, in person by default, because the loop runs on conversations that do not happen over a calendar invite. Some engineering roles flex remote; the desk does not.