Quantitative Trader - Crypto Prediction Markets
Raven is a proprietary high-frequency trading and market-making firm. It provides institutional liquidity across crypto, DeFi, centralized exchanges, prediction markets, and traditional financial venues for exchanges and token issuers.
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About Raven
Raven is a proprietary algorithmic high-frequency trading firm focused on liquidity provision and market making. It operates across centralized and decentralized crypto venues, prediction markets, and traditional financial markets, using low-latency trading infrastructure and its own capital. Raven offers liquidity programs for token issuers, multi-venue coverage, TGE market making, and anchor-liquidity engagements for new exchanges and market venues.
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About the Role
You will price digital and barrier contracts using crypto volatility surfaces and manage two-sided markets as the underlying moves. You will hedge through spot and perpetuals manage inventory and estimate probabilities for unhedgeable events. You will research full-depth historical data with realistic backtests and manage correlated tail oracle and resolution risk.
Requirements
- Experience pricing and trading options digitals or short-dated derivatives with real money behind quotes
- Deep knowledge of volatility surfaces digital and barrier payoffs and greeks
- Microstructure judgment involving queue position adverse selection and latency budgets
- Strong applied statistics and probability
- Backtest hygiene and awareness of look-ahead bias and unrealistic fills
- Fluent English
- Understanding of prediction-market and on-chain settlement mechanics is a plus
- No degree required
Responsibilities
- Price digital and barrier contracts
- Model volatility skew term structure and jump risk
- Quote and reprice two-sided markets
- Manage inventory across strikes and expiries
- Hedge delta through spot and perpetuals
- Estimate calibrated probabilities for unhedgeable events
- Research historical market data
- Build latency-aware backtests
- Manage correlated exposure tail risk oracle risk and resolution risk
Hiring Process
Four stages. No filler rounds, no games. 1. Intro call: short conversation with the hiring lead, context on the role/firm, understand fit. 2. Technical deep-dive: role-specific, understand how you think. 3. Take-home or case: a scoped problem reflecting actual work, review the output with you. 4. Onsite or final round: meet the broader team, cultural fit, stretch discussion, offers move fast after this.
