Prediction Markets Trader

Skills

About the Role

You will own the full lifecycle of trading strategies, from research and backtesting through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. You will run event-neutral, arbitrage, and relative-value strategies; build execution and risk tooling; establish trading guardrails; identify structural market edges; coordinate operational processes; and report performance using trading metrics.

Requirements

• Have 2+ years of systematic or semi-systematic trading, sports or exchange betting, options arbitrage, or market-making experience.
• Have 12+ months of real-capital trading experience on Kalshi, Polymarket, or an equivalent venue, with verifiable P&L.
• Have deployed live strategies through adverse market regimes and liquidity droughts.
• Know Python, including pandas, NumPy, and asynchronous I/O.
• Know APIs, WebSockets, and basic SQL.
• Understand portfolio construction under capital and counterparty or exchange risk constraints.
• Have crypto-native and traditional finance experience involving controls, auditability, and operational and compliance handoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own the full strategy lifecycle, including research, backtesting, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Run event-neutral, arbitrage, and relative-value strategies across multiple venues.
• Build and maintain execution and risk tooling.
• Codify hard limits, pre-trade checks, and post-trade reports with operations.
• Exploit fee, liquidity, settlement, timing, and cross-venue structural edges.
• Coordinate onboarding, KYC, wallets, custody, and daily P&L with operations.
• Report hit rates, expected value versus realized results, and Sharpe Ratio.