Senior Trading Risk Control Specialist (Crypto)

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Company

A global cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform serving users across more than 200 countries and regions, with products spanning trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously improve risk and surveillance strategies for abusive or manipulative activity across spot, perpetual futures, options, and related trading products.
• Investigate coordinated or suspicious trading using order-flow analysis, self-trading and crossing behaviours, order-book signals, and account-linkage indicators.
• Define behavioural patterns for evolving manipulation methods, especially in thinly traded assets, leveraged instruments, and liquidation-driven market events.
• Assess market disruption, financial exposure, and concentration risks to support prioritisation and leadership reporting.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, data scientists, and analysts to design, test, and implement monitoring rules, detection logic, models, and risk controls.

Requirements

• Practical experience trading or managing risk in derivatives, with strong knowledge of futures, perpetual swaps, and options.
• Strong understanding of leverage, margin requirements, liquidation processes, insurance-fund structures, and auto-deleveraging mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in trading-risk management, market surveillance, or preventing market abuse, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, or misuse of privileged information.
• Strong analytical ability and advanced SQL skills; Python experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to independently create and validate detection approaches using order-level and trade-level data.
• Ability to anticipate how bad actors may build positions, obscure behaviour, and exploit market or product mechanics.

Nice to have

• Market surveillance, trading-risk, or market-conduct experience at a digital-asset exchange, brokerage, or trading venue.
• Active derivatives-trading experience or a demonstrable quantitative trading record.
• Familiarity with financial-market abuse regulations, surveillance frameworks, or vendor platforms.
• Knowledge of blockchain analytics and on-chain transaction tracing.
• Experience with graph analysis or entity-resolution methods for identifying coordinated account networks and fund flows.
• Familiarity with market-quality and anomaly indicators such as VPIN and HHI.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional development support through a Study Growth Fund.
• Regular team-building activities, workshops, and internal events.
• Collaboration with an international team across global locations.
• Career advancement opportunities and internal mobility.