Market Making Trader-Developer

About the Position

Market Making Trader-Developer

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. The 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.

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.

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.
• Cross-asset mindset and ability to transfer trading techniques across digital assets, derivatives, spot/perpetual markets, and traditional markets.
• Understanding of risk-adjusted performance, including Sharpe, drawdown, attribution, and exposure monitoring.
• Strong security awareness in a digital-asset trading environment, including keys, credentials, API permissions, and secure deployment.
• Willingness to participate in shift work or night rotation when required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and trading topics to senior stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Social package (24 working days of annual leave and 5 paid sick days)
• Flexible working hours
• Challenging projects in diverse business domains and a variety of tech stacks
• Personal development and professional growth opportunities
• Work with talented, ambitious and family-feel team
• Educational possibilities: corporate courses, knowledge hubs, and in-house English classes
• Compensation for your professional certification & support for your learning activities
• Opportunity to choose IT equipment you like
• Corporate social responsibility

About the Company

At IdeaSoft, we are dedicated to providing innovative solutions in the fintech and digital assets space. Our team is composed of talented, ambitious individuals who thrive in a collaborative and high-trust environment. We offer a variety of opportunities for personal and professional growth, including corporate courses, knowledge hubs, and in-house English classes.

Tamara Mitiagina

Head of Recruitment

Would you like to join us?

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