Options Trader
Wintermute helps you trade digital assets by providing algorithmic liquidity across exchanges and OTC markets.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Wintermute
Wintermute helps traders and institutions access digital asset liquidity through algorithmic market making and OTC services. Users can trade various tokens, access derivatives markets, and execute large orders without market impact. Wintermute provides deep liquidity across centralized and decentralized platforms.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You monitor crypto-market flows across spot, perpetuals, futures, and options to identify volatility and skew dislocations. You research and backtest volatility strategies, develop alpha signals, manage a multi-exchange crypto-options portfolio, improve electronic execution and automation, assess counterparty and liquidity risks, and oversee the investment lifecycle from thesis development through post-trade analysis.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of options market making at a top-tier trading firm
- Proprietary trading experience
- Systematic trading
- Algorithmic trading
- Option pricing
- Risk frameworks
- Quantitative analysis
- Analytical skills
- Python
- Coding
Responsibilities
- Monitor and rationalise crypto-market flows across spot, perpetuals, futures, and options
- Analyse exchange-level positioning, funding dynamics, open interest, and on- and off-exchange flows
- Research and backtest volatility surfaces, term structures, skew behaviour, relative-value trades, and dispersion trades
- Develop and refine alpha signals using market-microstructure insights and quantitative research tools
- Trade and risk-manage a multi-exchange crypto-options portfolio
- Contribute to systematic and semi-systematic volatility strategies
- Own the investment lifecycle from thesis development through modelling, execution, and post-trade analysis
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution and exchange automation
- Monitor exchange counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies in crypto derivatives markets
