About the company
Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading products as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. We actively participate in the development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of projects. Wintermute was founded in 2017 by industry leaders and has successfully navigated multiple crypto industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the best of the two worlds: the technology standards of high-frequency trading firms in traditional markets and the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups. Read more here.
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
šAssisting traders with ad-hoc market events and opportunities šHelping to debug live trading systems and detecting abnormalities šReconciling both manual and automated OTC trading šDeveloping and generating new reports, analysis and GUI tools which can be used by traders to improve strategies. šOptimizing and automating general workflows šCommunicating and liaising with counterparties to ensure they are satisfied with the OTC services that Wintermute provides šTrade settlement - communicating with trading counterparties to ensure timely and accurate settlements šTrade reconciliation - ensuring the trades that we agree to settle have the correct trade economics šProcess improvement - working with developers to help automate processes or design ways to streamline current processes šAnswering trade queries internally and externally
Hard Skills Requirements
šGood Python skills - you have experience coding in Python, be that through work, study or personal project experience - we will test! šExcellent Excel skills and ability to analyse and work with tabular data šExcellent quantitative and analytical skills - we will test! šTrading knowledge isnāt required but a strong willingness and curiosity to learn algorithmic, high-frequency, quantitative and market making trading is crucial šPrior experience with Operations functions and / or counterparty relationship management in a crypto/financial services company with high-volume and complex operations (multiple products, multiple geographies); experience in an hft/liquidity provision business is a significant advantage