wintermute-trading - Options Trader
Requirements
• 3-5+ years of option market making at one of the top tier trading firms in the space (must have); we prefer proprietary trading experience with significant component of systematic and algorithmic trading (not only position taking or executing client trades) • Deep understanding of option pricing and risk frameworks; ability to design these from scratch based on prior expertise • Excellent quantitative and analytical skills: we will test (must have) • Python/coding skills is a significant advantage; otherwise, willingness and ability to learn Python within several months on own time is required • Have an owner mentality - you focus on the ultimate result - P&L for the company and strategically growing the business and Wintermute partnerships • Love problem solving, and love seeing your products work; you do whatever it takes to do what’s needed (trading, coding, analysing data, collaborating). • Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way. • Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver. • Have an entrepreneurial mindset versus working 9-to-5 mentality; prepared to work non-standard working hours (since we are a pivotal player in the crypto markets that don’t stop 24/7 ). • Like working in a team collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
• Monitor and rationalise crypto market flows across spot, perpetuals, futures, and options to identify volatility and skew dislocations. • Analyse exchange-level positioning, funding dynamics, open interest, and on/off-exchange flows to uncover structural and tactical trading opportunities. • Research and backtest volatility surface dynamics, term structure, skew behaviour, relative value and dispersion trades across major digital assets (e.g. BTC, ETH and liquid altcoins). • Develop and refine alpha signals combining market microstructure insights with quantitative research tools. • Actively participate in trading and risk-managing a multi-exchange crypto options portfolio, including delta, vega, gamma, and cross-venue risk. • Contribute to the desk’s expansion into systematic and semi-systematic volatility strategies. • Own the full investment lifecycle from intuition and thesis development through modelling, execution, and post-trade performance analysis. • Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution, improve latency-sensitive routing, and enhance automation across exchanges. • Monitor exchange counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies unique to crypto derivatives markets.
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