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About the Role
We are seeking a Trader to join our Trading Operations team. The mission is to ensure every aspect of trading runs seamlessly, efficiently, and intelligently. This role is directly responsible for helping scale strategies to new markets, building tools to automate trading management, and responding to changing market dynamics. The role primarily covers Asian hours and requires a high degree of autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Oversee automated trading processes, monitoring positions, exposure, and P&L, and investigating issues.
- Manage collateral and capital across exchanges to maximize efficiency.
- Build deep understanding of crypto trading mechanics, including margin, leverage, fee structures, and API constraints.
- Serve as primary point of contact with exchanges and optimize participation in market maker programs.
- Troubleshoot system issues, read trading logs, triage errors, and implement hotfixes.
- Write, modify, review, and debug code supporting trading systems.
- Review and reconcile accounting data and P&L from multiple sources.
- Execute operational tasks such as opening accounts, creating API keys, and handling non-automated trades.
- Identify process improvements and implement automations to increase efficiency.
Requirements
- Deep interest in trading concepts and crypto exchange mechanics (slippage, fees, funding rates, spreads, etc.).
- Strong problem-solving ability to understand markets, interactions, identify failures in complex systems, and execute solutions.
- Strong analytical skills to quickly evaluate quantitative tradeoffs in real time, triage tasks, and identify the highest return in a dynamic environment.
- Solid programming ability, with a focus on debugging emergent issues and problem-solving exchange interactions.
- Ability to read code, understand tracebacks, write code to interact with exchange APIs, and critically evaluate AI-generated suggestions.
- Exceptional organization and follow-through, managing multiple tasks.
- Strong communication skills to coordinate across developers, quants, back office, and external parties.
- Adept at operating in a frenetic, high-stakes environment with long and irregular hours.
- Willingness to take on tasks outside of your comfort zone and work with others to elevate yourself.
- Self-learner mentality with high responsiveness, including outside of structured work hours.
Skills
- Trading concepts
- Crypto exchange mechanics
- Problem solving
- Analytical skills
- Programming
- Debugging
- API interaction
- Organization
- Communication
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- N/A
Education Level
- N/A
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 – $200,000+
Benefits
- Fully paid medical and dental insurance for all employees and dependents
- Competitive 401k match
- Generous wellness benefits
- Meals at work
- Other perks
About the Company
- We’re a proprietary trading firm building systematic quantitative strategies in crypto.
- Since 2018, we’ve been a consistent liquidity provider across major venues, helping markets become more efficient and mature.
- Our core strategies span market-making, HFT, and statistical arbitrage.
- We build end-to-end systems: robust data and research pipelines to uncover edges, and low-latency infrastructure and execution software to capture them in production.
- We trade at scale (~$1B in daily notional volume) in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly competitive environment.
- We’re looking for collaborative problem-solvers who want ownership, impact, and the chance to work with a team that brings 100+ years of collective quantitative finance experience.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.