OpenFX - Quantitative Trader / Developer — Capital Markets
Requirements
• Must-haves: • Comfortable writing production code and owning a trading decision and its P&L on the same strategy. • Skills in probabilistic thinking and mathematical reasoning, with the ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions. • 3+ years of solving hard problems through code with real metrics and impact in industry, and strong development skills in Python and/or C++. • Real experience in market making, prop trading, or a trading-adjacent quant role. • Competitive spirit, a drive to improve, and an appetite for risk-taking. • Comfortable with abstract, ambiguous problems - explore a venue or a strategy, you don't wait for a spec. • abstract, ambiguous problems • Self-directed enough to learn a substantial new domain on the job - a new venue, a new asset class, new infrastructure. • Reliable, predictable availability around scheduled market-moving events. • Extreme attention to detail • What helps you stand out • Experience at a prop trading firm, HFT shop, or crypto market maker (Jane Street, Two Sigma, XTX, Jump, Wintermute, Cumberland/DRW, or similar). • Proven research background in an academic or professional environment, with expertise in statistics or machine learning. • Experience with on-chain derivatives, DeFi perp venues, or cross-venue arbitrage. • Experience building or operating stablecoin infrastructure or settlement rails. • Background in market microstructure, options pricing, or systematic FX trading. • What success looks like • Your strategies are live and measurably reducing costs or generating P&L on the book. • You operate independently — your manager is a sounding board on the trade, not someone assigning your work.
Responsibilities
• Trading strategy development. Develop, maintain, and improve trading and hedging strategies across our stablecoin and FX business, from idea to live execution, with full ownership of the outcome. • Trading strategy development. • Production trading systems and live operations. Own the reliability, observability, and operational performance of our live trading environment. Monitor systems in real time, act as primary responder to production issues, and work with the desk to investigate, mitigate, and resolve incidents affecting trading, risk, or system stability. • Production trading systems and live operations. • Production tooling and operational safety. Build and improve internal tools, dashboards, alerts, and automation that reduce manual intervention in live trading. Design and maintain safe testing, deployment, rollout for production changes. • Production tooling and operational safety. • Market microstructure and research. Build tools to research how our markets actually trade, and work with the desk to turn that analysis into an edge. • Market microstructure and research. • Full-cycle ownership. Engage in full-cycle trading development — research, coding, testing, and deploying into production. • Full-cycle ownership. • High Agency: Bring ideas to the desk unprompted and be ready to defend them. Find the competitive edge that drives results. • High Agency:
Benefits
• Competitive salary and benefits package. • Equity in a rapidly growing company. • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation. • Opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure • Collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth.
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