Options Trader (Digital Assets)

TL;DR

Options Trader (Digital Assets): Pricing and trading OTC digital-asset options while managing multi-asset derivatives books, with an accent on market making, quantitative pricing, and risk management. Focus on developing proprietary strategies, deploying trading infrastructure, and monetising opportunities across exchanges and prediction markets.

Location: Onsite in London, United Kingdom

Company

Institutional digital-asset liquidity provider offering continuous pricing and trading across spot, futures, options, CFDs, and NDFs.

What you will do

• Generate PnL through market making and proprietary trading across options and prediction markets.
• Manage risk for a multi-asset trading book covering vanilla and exotic derivatives.
• Price block trades for OTC clients through chat, voice, and electronic channels.
• Work with Sales to expand the OTC franchise and develop trade ideas.
• Partner with Quant Development and Research to deploy pricing, risk-management, and exchange-trading models.
• Research, test, and deploy proprietary strategies and trading signals.

Requirements

• 1–4 years of experience in options trading across any asset class.
• Experience quoting clients and managing risk for an options market-making book.
• Knowledge of systematic trading in listed options and/or prediction markets.
• Strong understanding of options pricing theory, volatility modelling, probability, financial markets, and macroeconomics.
• Interest in crypto markets and a quantitative university degree with strong grades.

Culture & Benefits

• Values-driven environment focused on ambitious, innovative, meritocratic, collegiate, and risk-aware work.
• Collaboration across pricing, structuring, risk, systems, research, sales, and regulation functions.
• Flexible working arrangements may be considered for roles.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunities.