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Algo Trader Intern – Markets

A six-month internship on the markets team of a digital asset trading firm. You would support traders and help improve strategies on centralised and decentralised exchanges.

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.

Give first-line support to live crypto trading
Improve strategies on centralised and decentralised exchanges
Write post-trade analysis reports
Deliver a six-month project by the end

What they ask for

Required

Master's in quantitative finance, maths, CS or statistics
Python and SQL
Crypto basics: wallets, blockchains, smart contracts, stablecoins
Multitasking in a fast environment
Fluent English

Preferred

Rust

Education: Master's in quantitative finance, maths, computer science or statistics
Experience: Final-year students or recent graduates; six-month full-time on-site internship
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Rust
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Build a post-trade analysis notebook for a crypto strategy (fills, slippage, markouts)
Learn how CEX order books differ from AMM pools
Understand perpetual futures funding and basis
Practise SQL on trade and market data

What to study

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