Systematic Trader
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As a Systematic Trader at Crypto.com, you develop, operate, and continuously improve systematic strategies in fast-moving electronic markets. You join the Trading team, which operates quantitative trading strategies across prediction markets, equity markets, and crypto markets, including spot and derivatives.
What you'll do
- Operate and manage systematic trading strategies and frameworks across prediction markets, equities, and crypto, including spot, perpetuals, futures, options, and other derivatives
- Monitor live trading, P&L, positions, risk, and execution performance
- Research, backtest, deploy, and improve systematic trading strategies
- Identify new trading opportunities across markets, products, exchanges, and venues
- Analyze strategy and execution performance, including fills, slippage, adverse selection, transaction costs, and latency
- Optimize strategy parameters, position sizing, execution, and risk controls
- Work closely with quantitative developers and researchers to implement new strategies and improve trading systems
- Participate in local trading coverage and rotating weekend coverage
What you bring
- 4+ years of experience in systematic, quantitative, electronic, proprietary, or market-making trading
- Demonstrated experience developing, operating, or improving profitable trading strategies
- Strong understanding of market microstructure, execution, and risk management
- Strong Python programming and quantitative data-analysis skills
- Experience working with large market and trading datasets; SQL experience is preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ownership in fast-moving markets
- A Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent relevant quantitative experience
Nice to have
- Experience trading in prediction markets, equities, or crypto markets
- Experience with market making, statistical arbitrage, relative value, arbitrage, or other systematic strategies
- Experience with exchange APIs, order-book or tick-level data, automated execution, or real-time trading systems
- C++ experience
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Crypto.com has 146 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 38 in Product, 21 in Legal & Compliance and 20 in Operations. 1% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and Hong Kong. 7 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $150k, from 78 listings that publish pay.
All 146 Crypto.com roles →1,824 Trading roles are open across crypto right now.
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