Crypto Trader – Market Making & On-Chain Execution in City of London

Job description

Crypto Trader - Market Making & On-Chain Execution

Location: Remote | London | Dubai

Team: Trading

Type: Full-Time

About Us

We are a leading crypto-native market maker and liquidity provider operating across both centralized and decentralized venues. Our team is lean, technical, and fast-moving, and we’re building the next generation of automated market-making infrastructure to scale liquidity across the full spectrum of crypto assets.

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Trader with a deep understanding of both centralized exchange (CEX) execution and native on-chain trading across DeFi ecosystems. The ideal candidate combines trading intuition with hands-on experience deploying and managing capital on-chain—whether across DEXs or CEXs.

You’ll work directly with the Head of Trading and Engineering to execute, manage, and optimize strategies across our market-making footprint. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives in dynamic markets and understands how to extract alpha while managing risk and inventory efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Actively manage market-making and arbitrage strategies across CEXs and DEXs

• Deploy and rebalance liquidity in concentrated DEX pools Contribute to inventory management and maintain risk-balanced positions using delta-neutral, basis, and volatility-informed strategies

• Actively deploy and manage liquidity across AMMs (e.g. Uniswap V3/V4, Raydium, Meteora)

• Execute on-chain trades manually and via bots across multiple chains (Ethereum, Solana, Base, etc.)

• Work closely with engineering to iterate on internal tools, bots, and strategy code

• Identify new trading opportunities across emerging protocols and ecosystems

• Monitor risk and exposure in real-time and respond swiftly to market events

• React to macro events, market flows, and funding imbalances with appropriate risk posture

• Support token launch and liquidity provisioning events in collaboration with clients and partners

Requirements

• 2–5 years experience trading crypto or traditional assets in a professional setting

• Strong quantitative, analytical, and decision-making skills under pressure

• Comfortable writing or modifying scripts (Python preferred) for trading or monitoring

• Understanding of risk frameworks: inventory, counterparty, on-chain slippage, and volatility exposure

• Proven track record managing positions and executing trades across DeFi protocols

• Deep knowledge of DeFi mechanics: AMMs, liquidity pools, perpetuals, staking, yield strategies, MEV

• Self-directed, highly accountable, and operationally disciplined

Nice to Have

• Experience collaborating with engineering teams on trading infrastructure

• Experience with Solidity or interacting with smart contracts directly

• Familiarity with perpetual decentralized exchange protocols

• Background in market microstructure or HFT

• Track open interest, perp skew, rate differentials, and L2 flows to anticipate structural shifts

• Familiarity with on-chain tooling such as Glassnode, Dune Analytics, Etherscan, DEX aggregators, and node/RPC infrastructure

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation + performance-based bonuses.

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge financial systems with high-impact teams.

• Tech-forward culture with strong engineering autonomy.

Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English