Options Trader
Wintermute helps you trade digital assets by providing algorithmic liquidity across exchanges and OTC markets.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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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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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, act like an owner, and have incentives aligned with performance. Coding experience or the ability to learn Python quickly is required.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of option market making at a top-tier trading firm, preferably with significant systematic and algorithmic trading experience.
- Deep understanding of option pricing and risk frameworks, with the ability to design them from scratch.
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
- Python or coding skills, or willingness and ability to learn Python within several months.
- Owner mentality focused on company P&L and strategic business growth.
- Problem-solving ability and willingness to trade, code, analyse data, and collaborate as needed.
- Determined, ambitious, humble, hardworking, and willing to learn.
- Comfort with meritocratic evaluation based on delivered results.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to work non-standard hours.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team 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.
- Develop and refine alpha signals combining market microstructure insights with quantitative research tools.
- Trade and risk-manage a multi-exchange crypto options portfolio, including delta, vega, gamma, and cross-venue risk.
- Contribute to the expansion into systematic and semi-systematic volatility strategies.
- Own the investment lifecycle from thesis development through modelling, execution, and post-trade performance analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution, latency-sensitive routing, and exchange automation.
- Monitor exchange counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies in crypto derivatives markets.
