Shift Trader Systematic Trading

Role Overview

We are looking for a Shift Trader to join a top-tier global quantitative trading firm. This role sits directly at the heart of their electronic trading environment, focusing on live systematic trading supervision, real-time risk oversight, shift coverage, and internal tooling engineering.

Responsibilities

• Monitor systematic trading strategies, orders, executions, positions, P&L, exposures, and relevant risk limits in real time.
• Respond to trading and production alerts, investigate issues, and escalate incidents to the appropriate teams.
• Take approved operational or trading actions in accordance with established procedures and controls.
• Support the continuity of trading activities across different market hours through effective shift coverage and clear handovers.
• Monitor trading systems and processes, including restarting or recovering services when required under established procedures.
• Assist with trade booking, hedging, reconciliation, position management, expiries, corporate actions, and other trading lifecycle activities.
• Conduct post-trade and execution analysis to identify irregularities and areas for improvement.
• Build and maintain Python tools and scripts for monitoring, alerting, analysis, reporting, and workflow automation.
• Improve operational procedures, monitoring controls, and incident-response documentation.
• Collaborate with trading, technology, risk, operations, and other internal stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.

Requirements

• Singapore citizen/PR is required.
• 2–5 years of systematic trading experience is required.
• Prior hands-on experience supporting, monitoring, or operating systematic or algorithmic trading strategies in a live trading environment is required.
• Programming proficiency in Python. KDB is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate with teammates globally.
• Strong sense of urgency with the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment