Experienced Trader

Summary

Join Auros, a leading cryptocurrency market maker, and contribute to shaping the future of financial services. This role offers the chance to leverage your high-frequency trading experience in traditional markets within the dynamic cryptocurrency space. You will directly manage a major trading book during Asian hours, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to strategy development and improvement. The position requires a strong quantitative background, experience in trading strategy development, and proficiency in Python. Auros offers a remote and flexible work environment, autonomy, and the opportunity to work with senior team members and founders.

Requirements

• Have experience in high-frequency trading, with strong quantitative backgrounds who think in terms of probabilities and expected value
• Have experience in the design, development, testing and coding of trading strategies
• Be comfortable assisting with the design, development and improvement of complex risk management systems
• Have experience coding with Python (or other relevant languages)
• Have a Bachelor's Degree or above in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Quantitative Sciences and Engineering or related disciplines

Responsibilities

• Directly manage one of our major trading books during Asian hours, including all operational and trading-related issues as they occur in real-time
• Continuously look for additional sources of edge through analyses of our trading and the market
• Work closely with the rest of our global trading and middle office teams to ensure trades are booked correctly, and reconciled between front and back office systems
• Liaise with our key exchange counterparts on margin requirements, coin borrows, trade breaks, technical issues and market making requirements
• Assist in the improvement of existing trading strategies, as well as research/development of new strategies
• Participate in idea generation, strategy formulation, back-testing and implementation
• Solve complex cryptocurrency derivative pricing problems
• Develop models and tools to automate daily tasks
• Develop and utilise proprietary back-testing and simulation tools
• Investigate crypto-currency market related products - collect, organize and analyse the best solutions to match the requirements of our various trading strategies

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
• Remote and flexible work
• Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business