Algorithmic Trader

Job description

sFOX is a full-service prime dealer uniting liquidity from over 30 exchanges and OTC desks in one easy-to-manage platform. sFOX’s platform provides traders with best execution services from a single account, a single counterparty, and a single workflow — giving traders greater capital efficiency. Its smart order router algorithmically routes traders to the most competitive prices worldwide, reducing slippage and improving trade performance across immense scale.

sFOX is committed to the highest standards of investor protection and reliability. The platform is SOC 2 certified and provides access to the market ²⁴⁄₇ with 99.99% uptime. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by Social Capital, Digital Currency Group, Khosla Ventures, DHVC, Haystack, Blockchain Capital, Y Combinator, and executives from PayPal and Airbnb.

We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial markets to everyone and we’re looking for exceptional talent to join our rapidly growing team.

Role

An outstanding opportunity to join sFOX, we are looking for an Algorithmic Trader with strong programming skills in python, and preferably one low level language with experience in HFT, liquidity, execution and crypto. You will be working as part of a team to improve the current SFOX platforms algos, liquidity, trading products and will receive a large amount of independence to develop your own algos and improve where possible the existing internal strategies.

Responsibilities

• You will be tasked with the creation of new trading products in various asset classes (spot, derivatives, Defi) and improving existing strategies and expanding them to new markets
• Help to build out and improve the data analytics, and use this to analyse the large amounts of data SFOX has to generate insights, automatic reporting, optimising strategies and being able to explain your findings to management
• Work closely with sales and trading partners to help improve liquidity on the SFOX platform and price clients OTC where needed and manage the risk associated
• Be responsible for the internal trading books, risk management, and internal trading applications
• Design, implement and improve existing market making and taking models
• Develop short term risk management techniques, trading signals and optimise parameters through back testing across SFOX’s trading suite
• Identify market microstructure patterns and trading opportunities
• Improve and maintain the current SFOX infrastructure in Golang

Requirements

• 5 +Years experience in a relevant role
• Strong coding skills in a data science language (python preferred) and a lower level language (go, c++, rust)
• Trading / risk management / liquidity provisioning experience is preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• An interest in crypto and DeFi, the various assets classes, exchanges (DEX’s) and keeping track of the new developments in the space
• Have a product owner mentality, focusing on results, explaining them using data and focussing on the long term business strategy

sFOX is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.