Derivatives Trader
BitGo provides institutional-grade digital asset custody, wallets, staking, trading, and settlement services through regulated infrastructure and qualified custodians.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About BitGo
BitGo delivers digital asset infrastructure including qualified custody from regulated trust companies, multi-signature wallet technology, institutional staking services, prime brokerage trading and lending, and real-time settlement through the Go Network platform.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You lead and execute sophisticated derivatives trading strategies across digital asset markets, manage significant positions and risk exposures, identify risk-adjusted trading opportunities, analyze market structure and derivatives data, develop trading strategies, collaborate with product, engineering, risk, compliance, and leadership teams, and mentor other traders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional derivatives trading experience
- Derivatives trading experience across futures, perpetuals, options, volatility, basis, and structured products
- Experience managing significant trading risk and capital
- Expertise in market structure, liquidity, pricing, execution, hedging, and risk management
- Ability to independently develop and execute sophisticated trading strategies
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Deep understanding of digital asset markets and market microstructure
- Experience trading and managing risk through multiple market cycles
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the execution and management of derivatives trading strategies across digital asset markets
- Identify and capitalize on trading opportunities across global digital asset markets
- Manage trading positions and exposures within established risk parameters
- Develop strategies to generate risk-adjusted returns across market conditions
- Optimize execution, pricing, liquidity, and position management
- Mentor and guide other traders
- Develop market views on derivatives curves, volatility surfaces, funding rates, basis, liquidity, and market structure
- Identify relative value, arbitrage, basis, volatility, and other complex trading opportunities
- Assess macroeconomic, regulatory, competitive, and industry developments
- Manage trading risk across assigned strategies and portfolios
- Monitor P&L, position limits, liquidity, counterparty exposure, and margin requirements
- Make decisions on position sizing, hedging, leverage, and risk allocation
- Develop risk mitigation strategies
- Shape the growth and strategic direction of the derivatives trading business
- Evaluate new markets, exchanges, counterparties, products, and trading opportunities
- Contribute to institutional trading infrastructure, processes, and controls
- Build relationships across institutional trading and liquidity ecosystems
- Translate trading requirements into product and technology initiatives
- Improve trading systems, execution capabilities, analytics, and market connectivity
- Ensure trading activities operate within applicable regulatory frameworks
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual performance bonus
