Algorithmic Trader

Summary

Join sFOX, a leading prime dealer connecting liquidity from over 30 exchanges and OTC desks, as an Algorithmic Trader. You will play a key role in enhancing our platform's algorithms, liquidity, and trading products. This position offers significant independence to develop your own algorithms and optimize existing strategies. Responsibilities include creating new trading products across various asset classes, improving data analytics, collaborating with sales and trading partners, managing internal trading books and risk, designing and improving market-making models, and developing risk management techniques. You will also identify market opportunities and maintain our Golang infrastructure. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of relevant experience, strong coding skills in Python and a lower-level language, and a deep understanding of trading, risk management, and liquidity provisioning.

Requirements

• 5 +Years experience in a relevant role
• Strong coding skills in a data science language (python preferred) and a lower level language (go, c++, rust)
• Strong analytical skills
• An interest in crypto and DeFi, the various assets classes, exchanges (DEX’s) and keeping track of the new developments in the space
• Have a product owner mentality, focusing on results, explaining them using data and focussing on the long term business strategy

Responsibilities

• You will be tasked with the creation of new trading products in various asset classes (spot, derivatives, Defi) and improving existing strategies and expanding them to new markets
• Help to build out and improve the data analytics, and use this to analyse the large amounts of data SFOX has to generate insights, automatic reporting, optimising strategies and being able to explain your findings to management
• Work closely with sales and trading partners to help improve liquidity on the SFOX platform and price clients OTC where needed and manage the risk associated
• Be responsible for the internal trading books, risk management, and internal trading applications
• Design, implement and improve existing market making and taking models
• Develop short term risk management techniques, trading signals and optimise parameters through back testing across SFOX’s trading suite
• Identify market microstructure patterns and trading opportunities
• Improve and maintain the current SFOX infrastructure in Golang

Preferred Qualifications

Trading / risk management / liquidity provisioning experience is preferred