Junior Trader - Quant Engineer

About the Role

The Junior Trader - Quant Engineer role involves joining a high-performance team to build and operate trading infrastructure across various markets. You will work on developing production-grade software for trade execution and risk management while analyzing trading performance and contributing to trading strategies.

What You'll Do

• Build, maintain, and improve market-making, hedging, and inventory-management systems across centralized exchanges and on-chain markets.
• Develop and deploy production-grade software for trade execution, exchange connectivity, monitoring, and PnL attribution.
• Analyze trading performance and run structured experiments involving parameter optimization, signal generation, and order-placement logic, supported by rigorous backtesting.
• Monitor trading and risk exposure in real time across spot, perpetuals, and on-chain inventory.
• Work closely with protocol and product teams on new product launches and token listings.
• Diagnose connectivity and execution issues quickly to maintain reliable trading infrastructure.
• Contribute to portfolio-level thinking around inventory, hedging, execution, and risk across multiple trading venues.

Who You Are

• 2–4 years of experience at a proprietary trading firm, HFT organization, or leading systematic fund in a quantitative development, core engineering, or trader-engineer role.
• Strong production-grade programming skills in Python plus meaningful systems experience with at least one of Rust, C++, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with order management systems, smart order routers, execution engines, or comparable low-latency trading infrastructure.
• Ability to read exchange protocol documentation and troubleshoot connectivity at the network layer.
• Experience with multi-venue trading or portfolio systems, including inventory management and risk across multiple books.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure, including order books and fee structures.
• Demonstrable technical portfolio such as GitHub projects or internal tools.
• Availability to overlap with at least one of the Singapore, Hong Kong, or Tokyo trading sessions.

Bonus Points

• Crypto or digital-asset experience, particularly market making on CEXs/DEXs.
• Familiarity with Aptos, Move, Solidity, or on-chain perpetuals.
• Genuine interest in combining quantitative thinking with hands-on software engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Variable compensation linked to delivery and team performance.
• Meaningful protocol token allocation.
• Insurance premium coverage.
• Flexible vacation time.
• Opportunity to work within a small, senior, technically sophisticated team.
• Significant ownership and responsibility from the first weeks in the role.