Crypto Trading Operations Analyst

As a Crypto Trading Operations Analyst at Alphextra, you monitor and protect live crypto trading strategies running 24/7 across major centralised exchanges. You catch problems before they cost money-a strategy behaving oddly, an exchange API degrading, a position that does not reconcile, a risk limit getting close-and escalate clearly to traders and engineers. This role suits candidates early in their career as well as those with a few years on a trading desk; we filter on judgement and reliability, not years.

What you'll do

• Monitor live crypto trading strategies on major centralised exchanges in real time, tracking orders, fills, positions, PnL, margin and risk limits.
• Spot and respond to anomalies: rejected orders, stuck or orphaned positions, unusual slippage, funding or liquidation risk, API errors, exchange outages or maintenance windows.
• Follow and improve runbooks by pausing or flattening strategies when rules say so, and escalate to traders and engineers with a clear summary of what happened.
• Run reconciliations of positions, balances and transfers across exchange accounts and internal records, and chase down any discrepancy.
• Write tight shift handovers and incident logs, and suggest new alerts or checks when you see a gap.

What you bring

• Hands-on familiarity with crypto trading: you have traded, monitored bots or desks, or worked in crypto ops, and you know spot, perpetual futures, funding rates, margin and liquidation.
• Willingness to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends, on a regular basis.
• Sharp attention to detail and calm under pressure; when something breaks at 3am, you follow the process and think clearly.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, and comfort reading dashboards, logs and exchange account pages.
• Clear written English for handover notes that are read by people who were asleep when events happened.
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, Gurgaon.

Nice to have

• Basic Python or SQL for checks, scripts and reconciliations.
• Some understanding of exchange APIs (REST, WebSocket), rate limits and order types.
• Prior work on a trading, risk or ops desk, in crypto or traditional markets such as NSE, BSE or MCX.

What we offer

• Competitive pay that reflects the shift commitment.
• Real exposure to live crypto markets and the systematic strategies running in them, next to the people who build them.
• Ownership from week one, with no layer of supervisors between you and the desk.
• A path to grow into trading operations, risk or strategy support, depending on what you are good at.

About Alphextra

Alphextra is a quant HFT firm running systematic, alpha-generating strategies across Indian exchanges (NSE, BSE, MCX) and crypto markets. A small team trading real capital in live markets, everyone owns something that matters and nobody is a cog.