Junior Trader

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Junior Trader executing CEX and DEX trades while monitoring risk and P&L. Building analytics and tooling for a crypto and DeFi trading operation.

Responsibilities:

  • Execute and manage trades across centralized and decentralized venues, including order books, AMM pools, and concentrated liquidity positions
  • Monitor positions, inventory, and P&L in real time
  • Identify risks early and act on them
  • Build and improve desk tooling, including position trackers, reporting dashboards, hedging workflows, and reconciliation
  • Analyze market and execution data to investigate slippage, pool profitability, and fill quality
  • Develop depth in market structure and protocol mechanics, including AMMs, PMMs, and lending protocols
  • Work directly with senior traders across strategies
  • Take on independent responsibilities quickly

Requirements:

  • 0–3 years of experience
  • Strong quantitative foundation in probability and statistics
  • Python preferred, ideally applied to financial modeling or data analysis
  • Experience with pandas, notebooks, and messy datasets preferred
  • R, MATLAB, SQL, or serious Excel modeling considered relevant
  • Real interest in crypto and DeFi; demonstrated engagement with the space
  • Sound judgment under pressure
  • Precise communication
  • Self-directed and adaptable
  • Comfortable operating autonomously across time zones in a remote-first environment

Benefits:

  • Annual bonus
  • Discretionary performance bonus
  • Direct mentorship from traders running real capital
  • Clear feedback on performance and responsibility progression
  • Exposure across execution, risk, tooling, counterparty relationships, and market structure