Algo Trader - Crypto - Market Maker

An innovative digital assets business is seeking an experienced Algorithmic Trader and Market Maker to develop and lead in-house liquidity provision across a growing portfolio of tokenised metals. Working with established financial institutions, exchanges and industrial producers, you will take ownership of trading strategies, P&L and the technology supporting execution, while working closely with a proprietary trading desk and specialist engineers.

What you'll do

• Develop and run algorithmic arbitrage strategies between tokenised metals and liquid commodity futures
• Provide liquidity in tokenised metals, managing quotes and inventory alongside physical market hedges
• Own strategy P&L, monitor performance and improve execution and risk management
• Manage relationships with external market-making partners and identify opportunities to bring further trading capabilities in-house
• Lead the trading development of an on-chain request-for-quote (RFQ) solver, working with specialist blockchain engineers
• Identify additional arbitrage and market-making opportunities across digital assets and other markets
• Build and maintain trading systems supporting your strategies, including exchange connectivity, market data infrastructure, data collection and storage, order and portfolio management systems, signal generation and execution logic, trading automation, reporting, P&L monitoring, operational controls, deployment, system monitoring and reliability

What you bring

• Demonstrable experience running algorithmic market-making or arbitrage strategies with live risk and direct P&L responsibility
• Strong Python skills and a proven track record of independently building and operating trading systems
• A thorough understanding of order book dynamics, execution and inventory management
• Strong quantitative skills and a practical approach to strategy development
• The ability to work autonomously within a small, commercially focused team

Nice to have

• Experience at a crypto market maker or liquidity provision business
• Commodities trading knowledge, particularly metals
• Previous experience on an electronic FX or commodities desk at a bank or brokerage
• Rust programming experience or an interest in developing it
• Familiarity with on-chain markets and decentralised finance
• A background in quantitative development followed by a move into trading