Systematic Trader

London Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

As Systematic Trader, you will develop, operate, and refine automated trading strategies across prediction markets, equities, and crypto. You will work with cross-functional teams to deploy quantitative methods in fast-moving electronic markets and monitor performance, risk, and execution. The role focuses on improving strategies through research, backtesting, and optimization, while identifying new opportunities across venues. You will be part of a results-driven trading team that values data-driven decision making and scalable systems. This is an opportunity to shape systematic trading at scale and impact profitability.

Responsibilities

  • Operate and manage systematic trading strategies across prediction markets, equities, and crypto (spot, perpetuals, futures, options, and derivatives).
  • Monitor live trading, P&L, positions, risk, and execution performance.
  • Research, backtest, deploy, and improve systematic trading strategies.
  • Identify new trading opportunities across markets, products, exchanges, and venues.
  • Analyze strategy and execution performance, including fills, slippage, adverse selection, transaction costs, and latency.
  • Optimize strategy parameters, position sizing, execution, and risk controls.
  • Collaborate with quantitative developers and researchers to implement new strategies and enhance trading systems.
  • Participate in local trading coverage and rotating weekend coverage.

Key requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in systematic, quantitative, electronic, proprietary, or market-making trading.
  • Proven experience developing, operating, or improving profitable trading strategies.
  • Strong understanding of market microstructure, execution, and risk management.
  • Strong Python programming and quantitative data-analysis skills.
  • Experience working with large market and trading datasets; SQL experience preferred.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to take ownership in fast-moving markets.
  • Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent relevant quantitative experience.
  • strong analytical thinking
  • ownership and accountability
  • ability to work under pressure in fast-moving markets
  • Python
  • SQL
  • large-scale data analysis

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