Options Trader

Skills

About the Role

Monitor crypto-market flows, 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, preferably with systematic and algorithmic trading.
• Deep understanding of option pricing and risk frameworks, with the ability to design them from scratch.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
• Python and coding skills, or willingness and ability to learn Python within several months.
• Owner mentality and focus on business results and P&L.
• Problem-solving ability and willingness to trade, code, analyse data, and collaborate.
• Ability to work non-standard hours in 24/7 crypto markets.
• Collaborative, determined, ambitious, humble, entrepreneurial, and hardworking.

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 alpha signals using market-microstructure insights and quantitative research.
• 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 counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies in crypto derivatives markets.