Strategy Developer (Crypto HFT)

TL;DR

Strategy Developer (Crypto HFT): Design, develop, and optimize low-latency market making and arbitrage strategies for cryptocurrency markets. Focus on building performant trading algorithms, collaborating with traders, and maintaining reliable 24/7 automated trading systems.

Location: Fully remote within APAC timezones (Singapore, Hong Kong, or similar)

Salary: Up to $250,000 base + performance bonus

Company

Leading high-frequency trading firm in the global cryptocurrency market with teams across five continents.

What you will do

• Design and develop market making and HFT strategies for crypto markets
• Optimize trading algorithms for low latency and high throughput
• Write clean, maintainable, production-ready C++ and Python code
• Monitor live trading algorithms for technical performance, risk, and P&L impact
• Collaborate closely with traders, developers, and the wider strategy team
• Improve systems for automated 24/7/365 trading and monitoring

Requirements

• Must have 3+ years experience developing high-performance trading strategies in crypto or traditional markets
• Strong C++ skills on Linux for low-latency systems
• Experience with market making and/or HFT arbitrage strategies
• Solid understanding of risk within trading strategy design and portfolio management
• Familiarity with latency-optimized distributed systems handling high transaction volumes
• Willingness to be on-call for the systems you develop

Nice to have

• Experience with network programming (UDP, TCP, TLS, Websockets)
• Profiling and performance tuning with tools like Cachegrind or Valgrind
• Familiarity with shared memory and inter-process messaging
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
• Linux configuration and system monitoring skills

Culture & Benefits

• Join one of the largest crypto HFT firms globally with a collaborative, elite engineering team
• Flat structure with rapid decision-making and no bureaucratic barriers
• Fully remote work within APAC timezones
• Highly competitive salary and performance bonus
• Opportunity to design and own live trading strategies deployed at global scale