Role: Algorithmic Trader (HFT)
Venture Search is partnered with a leading proprietary trading firm with just under 10 years of experience that is based in Latvia, specializing in making crypto markets more efficient and liquid. The firm is currently seeking a HFT algorithmic trader, to assist in optimizing and creating trading strategies.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test high-frequency arbitrage trading strategies.
- Engage in post-trade analysis to comprehend execution results and make trading systems better over time.
- Work on asset management system optimization, ensuring efficient asset allocation across exchanges.
- Work alongside other algorithmic traders to increase system performance.
- Focus on long-term research and strategic improvements, contributing your alternative views to enhance system performance.
- Examine past data to identify inefficiencies, enhance risk management tactics, and optimize signal parameters.
Experience
- Minimum +2 years' of practical experience with algorithmic trading systems.
- Experience with cryptocurrency and market making is advantageous.
- Strong Python skills
- Understanding of risk management, hedging, and arbitrage.
- Excellent analytical and quantitative abilities
- Willingness to work in a hybrid environment with an on-site presence.