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title: 'Quantitative Developer at Presto'
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# Quantitative Developer at Presto

- **Company:** Presto
- **Location:** South Korea
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/prestolabs/f356c01a-e6f4-4f7f-aa98-3128c335ab50

## Job description

## About Presto

Founded in 2014, Presto is an algorithmic trading and financial services firm with a global presence. Presto focuses on delivering exceptional value for clients through a rigorous research-driven approach to investment and trade execution.

As a Quant Developer at Presto You will develop frameworks that help researchers and traders generate and implement various trading ideas derived from the data using innovative technologies. You will also develop tools for implementing and managing strategies. You will work with the world’s top-class quantitative engineers, researchers, and traders of Presto Labs, and experience a lot of cutting-edge technologies.

## Responsibilities

- Collaborate with and support Quantitative Researchers and Traders on signal/alpha and strategy development
- Collaborate with external exchanges to integrate and optimize trading operations, ensuring seamless connectivity and data exchange.
- Build a robust, expandable research infrastructure, including global market data analysis, automated alpha/signal search, simulation, and performance evaluation
- Build a platform to process all parts of quant trading - data processing, model building, optimization, and execution
- Build visualization, monitoring, and reporting tools for live trading and simulation (market/position/profit and loss/any other statistics related to trading)

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or other quantitative disciplines
- Proficiency in C++ and Python
- Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience in Unix/Linux environments
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a fast-paced team environment
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to take the initiative and work without detailed guidance or supervision

## Preferred

- 2+ years of experience and proven track records in the software development industry or relevant experience (portfolio of achievement while in Master's or Ph.D. program, for instance)
- Experience in quantitative analysis and algorithms
- Strong knowledge of probability and statistics (e.g., machine learning, time-series analysis, pattern recognition, NLP)
- Proficient English communication skills for business conversations and written communication

Hiring process

- CV/ Resume Submission
- Coding & Math test
- 1st round interview
- 2nd round interview
- Depending on the circumstances, the interview process may change.

To see how Presto excels in Quant trading? Click here to explore our YouTube channel!

## About Presto

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Presto is a quantitative trading firm that builds automated trading systems fueled by data-driven analysis to provide liquidity, market making, and execution services across digital asset and traditional finance markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore (primary office at 79 Robinson Road) and Dubai, UAE (multiple offices); operations also in Seoul, South Korea and Shanghai, China.
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Jaewon An and Yongwoon Cho

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Capital Markets / Algorithmic Trading
- **Target customers**: B2B – blockchain projects, cryptocurrency exchanges, institutional investors, and other financial market participants.
- **Mission statement**: "Combine engineering, mathematics, and science to navigate both digital asset and traditional finance markets with precision."

## Products & Services
- **High-Frequency Trading (HFT)**: Ultra-low-latency automated trading that receives market data and sends orders in microseconds, leveraging proprietary hardware and algorithms.
- **Market Making**: Provides liquidity to exchanges by quoting bid-ask spreads, contributing to market stability.
- **Portfolio Management**: Long-term, data-driven portfolio strategies built on robust statistical research and reliable data storage.
- **OTC Execution**: Over-the-counter trading services for large block orders, offering liquidity and execution for blockchain projects.
- **Proprietary Trading Platform**: In-house built low-latency trading platform that is continuously optimized for speed, reliability, and scalability.
- **Risk Management System**: Real-time monitoring and enforcement of risk parameters on all orders.
- **Ultra-Realistic Simulation**: In-house market simulators used to research and validate predictive models before live trading.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at USD 5.3 million (source: LinkedIn). Total funding not disclosed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors publicly listed; cooperates with multiple exchanges worldwide for liquidity provision.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Executes over 100 million trades daily.
  - Headcount of approximately 70–90 employees (conflicting reports: LinkedIn shows 70 with -100% YoY growth; another LinkedIn profile shows 89 with -7.3% YoY). The negative growth may reflect restructuring or data discrepancies.
  - Active job postings (1 as of latest data), but down 66.7% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary low-latency trading platform** built entirely in-house, giving full control over performance and customization.
- **Ultra-realistic market simulators** that allow rigorous backtesting and model validation before deployment.
- **Data-centric approach**: Every trade is preceded by strict data sanitization and cross-validation, removing human bias.
- **Integrated risk management** that monitors trades in real time, ensuring all orders stay within agreed risk parameters.
- **Multidisciplinary team** combining engineering, mathematics, and science to tackle complex financial problems.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuously improving the speed, reliability, and scalability of the proprietary trading platform.
- Expanding into new markets and asset classes (both digital and traditional).
- Strengthening relationships with exchanges to enhance liquidity provision.
- Attracting top engineering and research talent to maintain a competitive edge in algorithmic trading.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Agile, fast-paced environment where bold ideas are quickly implemented. Collaboration with world-class engineers and researchers is central.
- **Work Model**: On-site roles in Singapore, South Korea, and Dubai. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated.
- **Employee Ratings**: 4.4/5 on LinkedIn (20 reviews) – Compensation rated 4.6, Culture 4.1, Career 4.4, Work-Life 4.3.
- **Notable Perks**: Not detailed, but the firm emphasizes intellectual challenge, rapid iteration, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge trading systems.
- **Engineering Focus**: Engineers work on low-latency systems, data pipelines, simulation, and risk management – a strong fit for those passionate about performance and quantitative finance.

## Sources
1. [prestolabs.io](https://www.prestolabs.io/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/presto-official](https://linkedin.com/company/presto-official)
3. [linkedin.com/company/prestolabs](https://linkedin.com/company/prestolabs)
4. [builtinsingapore.com](https://builtinsingapore.com/company/presto-labs-prestolabsio)
5. [jobs.lever.co/prestolabs](https://jobs.lever.co/prestolabs)

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