Trading Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Wintermute Trading

Wintermute Trading

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

About Wintermute

At Wintermute our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products.

We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains.

Wintermute is also offering best-in-class OTC products to crypto native as well as traditional financial institutions.

Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of own projects.

We act as official liquidity providers for a large number of the world's highest profile blockchain projects.

Working at Wintermute

We are looking for a Trader Assistant with good Python coding skills Python and a curiosity about HFT, market making and crypto trading.

You will be working closely with the traders on the trading floor to expand and improve trading activities across multiple markets and strategies.

You will learn from them and be at the centre of the action, from supporting trading to liaising with developers while keeping in mind automation and scalability.

Responsibilities:

Assisting traders with adhoc market events and opportunities
Helping to debug live trading systems and detecting abnormalities
Reconciling both manual and automated OTC trading
Developing and generating new reports, analysis and GUI tools which can be used by traders to improve strategies.
Optimising and automating general workflows

Hard Skills Requirements:

Good Python skills you have experience coding in Python, be that through work, study or personal project experience we will test
Excellent quantitative and analytical skills we will test
Trading knowledge isn't required but a strong willingness and curiosity to learn algorithmic, highfrequency, quantitative and market making trading is crucial
Interest and curiosity in blockchain, crypto and DeFi you like keeping track of major news and developments the crypto world

Wintermute Offer:

A unique opportunity to work interesting projects in the most exciting trading markets
A unique opportunity to join a market leading algorithmic trading firms in crypto and a prominent player in the blockchain ecosystem
Great culture: highly professional and ambitious, yet informal, nonhierarchical, collaborative and entrepreneurial
A cool office in central London
Aligned incentive structure: a significant part of your compensation is performancebased with substantial upside

Tips for Successful Application:

Do your research: look at our website and social media channels
Write us a short, honest, and direct message if you'd like to apply. Tell us about why you are interested in crypto and market making in general and in Wintermute in particular.
Prepare to be tested on your Python knowledge. Your knowledge and ability to get things done fast is very important to us
Do your homework on what hft/market making/algo trading is

(Hint:

we are not in the business of position taking, directional betting, stock/token picking, technical analysis, "AI" (as in the buzz-word) and we are not a research business for the sake of research)