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Role Overview

We seek a skilled Trader-Developer for a regulated fintech company specializing in digital assets. The role involves market-making and algorithmic trading across multiple asset types and exchanges, including utility tokens, stablecoins, real-world assets, and prediction markets. This position blends hands-on trading with autonomous software development for market-making algorithms, operating in a live trading environment.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-end design, development, and maintenance of market-making algorithmic systems covering pricing, quoting, hedging, inventory management, and execution logic.
Full ownership of coding, testing, and deploying trading algorithms independently without reliance on dedicated developers.
Engagement in market-making strategies across diverse assets such as utility tokens, stablecoins, real-world assets, and prediction markets.
Active participation in live trading, including manual management of positions, hedging, risk controls, and interventions when necessary.
Development and operation of absolute-return strategies on liquid assets like cross-exchange and statistical arbitrage, spread-divergence, and volatility trading.
Building and supporting backtesting frameworks, out-of-sample validations, live-backtest comparisons, and ongoing production monitoring.
Prompt resolution of issues in live algorithmic trading stacks during market hours.
Handling market data infrastructure involving WebSocket streams, REST APIs, FIX protocols, order-book reconstruction, and latency analysis.
Monitoring financial metrics including P&L, drawdown, exposure, leverage, concentration limits, and venue-specific risks.
Producing performance reports covering volume, spread, depth, uptime, profit and loss, and attribution analysis.
Upholding strict operational security regarding keys, credentials, API permissions, and implementing least-privilege principles in deployments.
Collaborating effectively with traders, developers, platform engineers, senior executives, and external partners.

Qualifications and Experience

Proven practical experience in market making or algorithmic trading environments.
Deep knowledge of market-making mechanics including quoting, inventory skewing, spread control, and hedging strategies.
Hands-on engagement with live trading books, managing profit and loss, inventories, and risks.
Experience in manual trading or hedging under volatile market conditions.
Ability to develop, test, and deploy production-grade trading algorithms independently.
Experience deploying trading solutions that operate continuously in 24/7 market environments.
Strong programming expertise; proficiency in Rust is highly favored, with C++ and Python also significant.
Familiarity with SQL databases and Linux command-line operations.
Experience with Python scientific and quantitative libraries like pandas, NumPy, and SciPy.
Solid grounding in probability, statistics, pricing models, hedging approaches, risk management, and strategy evaluation.
Experience with digital assets trading such as crypto market making, centralized and decentralized exchanges, prediction markets, or related domains.
Background in traditional financial markets is advantageous.
Ability to apply cross-asset trading techniques across digital assets, derivatives, spot and perpetual markets, and traditional asset classes.
Understanding of risk-adjusted performance measures, including Sharpe ratio, drawdowns, attribution, and exposure monitoring.
Security mindedness in digital asset environments, including management of keys, credentials, API permissions, and secure system deployment.
Willingness to participate in shift duties or night rotations as required.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey complex technical and trading insights to senior leadership.

Additional Advantages

Experience with prediction market and event contract platforms such as Polymarket or Kalshi.
Knowledge of binary/multi-outcome pricing models, sportsbook or in-play trading.
Expertise in stablecoins and pegged assets including peg defense, reserve handling, and arbitrage strategies.
Familiarity with Real-World Assets (RWA) and tokenized assets.
Experience providing liquidity on new or low-liquidity venues requiring order book construction.
Involvement with options and volatility strategies including dynamic delta hedging.
Experience with arbitrage strategies such as cross-exchange or triangular arbitrage, including automated trading bots.
Familiarity with multi-venue smart order routing technologies (e.g., CoinRoutes, FalconX, Talos).
Experience with monitoring dashboards and tools such as Grafana or Streamlit.
Use of AI-assisted coding tools with strong critical judgment for code review and testing.
Formal financial market education or professional financial qualifications.
Experience working within small, trusted teams with significant individual ownership.

Work Conditions

This role requires presence onsite in the United Arab Emirates with a full-time employment arrangement. The position may involve shift work or night rotations depending on operational needs.

Market Making Trader-Developer