Founding Quantitative Trader (Prediction Markets Exchange)

A seed-stage, crypto-native company building a high-performance prediction-markets exchange is hiring a Founding Quantitative Trader to design, build and run its internal market-making operation from the ground up.

What you’ll own

• Develop fair-value models for binary and event-driven contracts and turn them into competitive, inventory-aware quotes
• Design strategies for short-duration markets and manage adverse selection from sophisticated takers
• Lead the build of market-data pipelines, order management, execution and state-reconciliation systems
• Design cross-venue hedging and arbitrage strategies and run the system in production
• Shape market structure, contract design, risk policy and capital allocation directly with the founders

Profile

• 2+ years as a quantitative trader or market maker with direct responsibility for real capital
• Experience with options, crypto or prediction markets and systematic market-making or short-horizon strategies
• Strong technical background: can build and ship production trading code
• Able to lead a small desk while staying hands-on
• Deep knowledge of market microstructure and backtesting; a CS, math, physics or finance degree is a plus

Hybrid in New York, NY. Open to visa transfers.