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Market Making Trader-Developer
IdeaSoft.io
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Senior
1 weeks ago
Market MakingAlgorithmic TradingRustC++PythonSQL
Free
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About the Role
IdeaSoft.io seeks a Trader and Developer for a regulated fintech partner in the digital assets space. The role focuses on market making and algorithmic trading across multi-asset, multi-venue digital asset books.
Key Skills for This Role
Market MakingAlgorithmic TradingRustC++PythonSQL
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain market making algorithm architecture end to end, including pricing, quoting, hedging, inventory management, and execution logic
- Independently code, test, and deploy trading algorithms without relying on a dedicated developer
- Work on market making strategies across utility tokens, stablecoins, real world assets, and prediction markets
- Participate in live trading, including manual position management, hedging, risk control, and manual intervention when required
- Research, build, and run absolute return strategies on liquid assets such as cross exchange arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, spread divergence, or volatility strategies
- Build and maintain backtesting frameworks, out of sample validation, live versus backtest reconciliation, and production monitoring
- Support and improve the live algorithm stack, including fast diagnosis and resolution of production issues under live market conditions
- Work with market data infrastructure including WebSocket streams, REST APIs, FIX protocol, order book reconstruction, and latency profiling
- Monitor P&L, drawdown, exposure, leverage, concentration limits, and venue risks
- Prepare performance reporting including volume, spread, depth, uptime, P&L, and attribution
- Follow strong operational security practices around keys, credentials, API permissions, least privilege access, and safe deployment
- Collaborate with traders, developers, platform engineers, senior stakeholders, and external market making partners
Requirements
- Strong hands on experience in market making and/or algorithmic trading
- Deep understanding of market making mechanics including quoting, inventory skew, spread management, and hedging logic
- Experience working with a live trading book including P&L, inventory, and risk ownership
- Practical experience with manual trading, manual hedging, or manual intervention under stressful market conditions
- Ability to independently design, code, test, and deploy trading algorithms
- Experience deploying production trading systems in a 24/7 environment
- Strong programming skills in Rust (highly preferred), C++, and Python
- Good knowledge of SQL and Linux command line
- Experience with Python data/quant libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy
- Strong understanding of probability, statistics, pricing, hedging, risk, and strategy evaluation
- Experience in digital assets (crypto market making, CEX, DEX, prediction markets)
- Experience in traditional financial markets / TradFi
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are looking for a Trader and Developer for our partner, a regulated financial technology business operating in the digital assets space.
- The project focuses on market making and algorithmic trading across a multi asset, multi venue digital asset book.
- Core areas include utility tokens, stablecoins, real world assets, prediction markets, and absolute return strategies on liquid assets.
- This is not a pure quant, research, or standard software engineering role. We are looking for a hands on specialist who can both trade and independently design, build, test, deploy, and monitor market making algorithms in a live trading environment.
Requirements
- Strong hands on experience in market making and/or algorithmic trading.
- Deep understanding of market making mechanics, including quoting, inventory skew, spread management, and hedging logic.
- Experience working with a live trading book, including P&L, inventory, and risk ownership.
- Practical experience with manual trading, manual hedging, or manual intervention under stressful market conditions.
- Ability to independently design, code, test, and deploy trading algorithms.
- Experience deploying production trading systems in a 24/7 environment.
- Strong programming skills. Rust is highly preferred; C++ and Python are also important.
- Good knowledge of SQL and Linux command line.
- Experience with Python data/quant libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, or similar.
- Strong understanding of probability, statistics, pricing, hedging, risk, and strategy evaluation.
- Experience in digital assets, such as crypto market making, CEX, DEX, prediction markets, or related areas.
- Experience in traditional financial markets / TradFi.
Would be a plus
- Experience with prediction markets and event contracts, such as Polymarket, Kalshi, or similar platforms.
- Experience with binary or multi outcome pricing, sportsbook trading, or in play trading.
- Experience with stablecoins and pegged assets, including peg defence, reserve management, and mint/redeem arbitrage.
- Experience with RWAs or tokenised assets.
- Experience providing liquidity on new or low liquidity venues where the book needs to be built from scratch.
- Experience with options and volatility strategies, including volatility trading and dynamic delta hedging.
- Experience with cross exchange arbitrage, triangular arbitrage, or production trading bots.
- Experience with multi venue execution stacks such as CoinRoutes, FalconX, Talos, or proprietary smart order routing.
- Experience with dashboards and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Streamlit, or similar.
- Experience using AI assisted development tools, such as Claude or similar, with strong judgement around reviewing, testing, and hardening generated code.
- Formal financial markets training or professional financial qualifications.
- Experience working in a small, high trust team where each person owns a significant scope.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain market making algorithm architecture end to end, including pricing, quoting, hedging, inventory management, and execution logic.
- Independently code, test, and deploy trading algorithms without relying on a dedicated developer.
- Work on market making strategies across one or more areas: utility tokens, stablecoins, real world assets, and prediction markets.
- Participate in live trading, including manual position management, hedging, risk control, and manual intervention when required.
- Research, build, and run absolute return strategies on liquid assets, such as cross exchange arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, spread divergence, or volatility strategies.
- Build and maintain backtesting frameworks, out of sample validation, live versus backtest reconciliation, and production monitoring.
- Support and improve the live algorithm stack, including fast diagnosis and resolution of production issues under live market conditions.
- Work with market data infrastructure, including WebSocket streams, REST APIs, FIX protocol, order book reconstruction, and latency profiling.
- Monitor P&L, drawdown, exposure, leverage, concentration limits, and venue risks.
- Prepare performance reporting, including volume, spread, depth, uptime, P&L, and attribution.
- Follow strong operational security practices around keys, credentials, API permissions, least privilege access, and safe deployment.
- Collaborate with traders, developers, platform engineers, senior stakeholders, and external market making partners.
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