Options Trader
Skills
About the Role
You are an experienced options trader with a proven track record at a top tier trading firm. You will build and scale the options trading business. There are no legacy systems no corporate bureaucracy and no multiple levels of approvals. You will act like an owner and your incentives will be aligned with performance. Coding experience or the ability to learn Python quickly is required.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of option market making at one of the top tier trading firms in the space with significant component of systematic and algorithmic trading
- Deep understanding of option pricing and risk frameworks and the ability to design these from scratch based on prior expertise
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Python coding skills are a significant advantage or willingness and ability to learn Python within several months
- Have an owner mentality and focus on the ultimate result P and L for the company and strategically growing partnerships
- Love problem solving and loving to see products work and doing whatever it takes to do what is needed trading coding analysing data collaborating
- Determined ambitious yet humble willing to work hard and learn on the way
- Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
- Have an entrepreneurial mindset and be prepared to work non standard hours rather than 9 to 5
- Like working in a team collaborative environment
Responsibilities
- Monitor and rationalise crypto market flows across spot perpetuals futures and options to identify volatility and skew dislocations
- Analyse exchange level positioning funding dynamics open interest and on off exchange flows to uncover structural and tactical trading opportunities
- Research and backtest volatility surface dynamics term structure skew behaviour relative value and dispersion trades across major digital assets such as BTC ETH and liquid altcoins
- Develop and refine alpha signals combining market microstructure insights with quantitative research tools
- Actively participate in trading and risk managing a multi exchange crypto options portfolio including delta vega gamma and cross venue risk
- Contribute to the desk expansion into systematic and semi systematic volatility strategies
- Own the full investment lifecycle from intuition and thesis development through modelling execution and post trade performance analysis
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution improve latency sensitive routing and enhance automation across exchanges
- Monitor exchange counterparty risk liquidity fragmentation and structural inefficiencies unique to crypto derivatives markets