Digital Assets Trader
A senior-leaning trader role for someone with proven profit from live crypto strategies on low-latency CeFi and/or on-chain venues. It sits in a global team of 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.
- Develop and refine profitable CeFi and DeFi strategies
- Trade, monitor and manage risk around the clock
- Find inefficiencies across exchanges, instruments and protocols
- Improve execution tooling with global teams
What they ask for
Required
- 3+ years professional trading
- Proven P&L from strategies you built and ran live
- Low-latency CeFi and/or on-chain trading
- Execution and liquidity understanding
- Exchange API experience
- Python and SQL
- Education
- Not stated
- Experience
- 3+ years at a prop firm, market maker or crypto desk; not entry-level
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- crypto
How to prepare
- Build and run a small crypto market-making or arbitrage strategy via exchange APIs
- Study crypto market structure: perpetuals, funding, order books and on-chain liquidity
- Learn latency sources and measure your own system's
- Keep a record of strategies, risk and results for interviews
What to study
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
- Statistical Arbitrage
- Python for Quantitative Finance
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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.