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Wintermute is hiring a full-time, onsite Options Trader, Research in London. The role focuses on crypto options market making, volatility research, systematic trading strategies, portfolio risk management, and electronic execution.
Company
Wintermute is a crypto market maker focused on high-frequency algorithmic trading and market making services.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and rationalise crypto market flows across spot, perpetuals, futures, and options to identify volatility and skew dislocations.
- Analyse exchange-level positioning, funding dynamics, open interest, and on- and off-exchange flows to identify trading opportunities.
- Research and backtest volatility surface dynamics, term structure, skew behaviour, relative value, and dispersion trades across major digital assets.
- Develop and refine alpha signals using market microstructure insights and quantitative research tools.
- Participate in trading and risk management of a multi-exchange crypto options portfolio, including delta, vega, gamma, and cross-venue risk.
- Contribute to the expansion of systematic and semi-systematic volatility strategies.
- Own the investment lifecycle from thesis development and modelling through execution and post-trade performance analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution, latency-sensitive routing, and exchange automation.
- Monitor exchange counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies in crypto derivatives markets.
Conditions
Full-time onsite work in London.
The role may require non-standard working hours because crypto markets operate continuously.
Hiring process
Candidates will complete a quantitative assessment.