Senior Trader - HFT RWA

Our client, a leading HFT crypto firm, is looking for a Senior HFT Trader / PM to build and lead a new trading business focused on Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Real-World Assets (RWA).

This is a business-building opportunity for an experienced trader who can identify and develop systematic, intraday trading opportunities across traditional and digital markets. The successful candidate will have significant ownership over strategy development, trading, risk management and ultimately the build-out of a scalable trading business.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a systematic intraday / HFT trading strategy across TradFi and RWA markets.
• Identify and capture cross-market relative-value and statistical arbitrage opportunities.
• Develop strategies around pricing dislocations between traditional financial instruments and their tokenized / digital representations.
• Develop fair-value models and trading signals when underlying markets are closed or liquidity is fragmented.
• Trade and manage positions on a 24/7 basis where appropriate, including extended-hours and digital-asset markets.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and engineers to develop signals, execution models and automated trading systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional trading experience, ideally in HFT, proprietary trading or quantitative trading.
• Demonstrated track record of generating and managing live trading P&L.
• Experience developing or overseeing intraday / HFT strategies.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to build a new trading business from the ground up.

Preferred Background

Candidates from:

• HFT firms
• Proprietary trading firms
• Quantitative hedge funds
• ETF / index market makers
• Crypto market makers / quantitative crypto funds