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Digital Assets Options Trader

A trader role helping build the crypto options business at a global proprietary firm, covering OTC and listed venues in CeFi and DeFi. It sits within the Digital Assets team alongside traders, quants and engineers.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Run and develop digital asset options strategies
Handle OTC flow: RFQs, pricing and execution
Manage the options desk's daily activity
Improve pricing, monitoring and risk tooling with quants and engineers

What they ask for

Required

Options trading at a prop firm, market maker or crypto desk
Options theory and risk
OTC options and RFQ handling
Volatility and liquidity understanding
Python and SQL
Flexible hours

Preferred

Crypto options experience

Education: Not stated
Experience: Options trading experience at a prop firm, market maker or crypto desk
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: crypto, options

How to prepare

Study crypto options conventions: Deribit-style products, inverse contracts, 24/7 vol
Practise fitting volatility surfaces and managing Greeks
Learn RFQ and OTC quoting workflows
Write Python and SQL for pricing and risk monitoring

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Flow Traders and doesn’t handle applications.