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Trader – Digital Assets (APAC Coverage)

A Sydney-based crypto trading seat that covers Asia-Pacific hours for IMC's Zug crypto team. You run and watch automated market-making and delta-one strategies rather than build them.

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.

Watch live positions, exposures and PnL through the Sydney session
Adjust strategy parameters and limits when markets move or venues misbehave
Investigate odd PnL or strategy behaviour and escalate to researchers and developers
Use Python to review execution quality of trades
Hand over cleanly to the Zug team each day

What they ask for

Required

Python for data analysis
Quantitative or technical degree
Sound judgement with live systems
Calm decision-making in incidents
Clear communication

Preferred

Electronic trading or market-making exposure
Crypto spot, perpetuals, funding and hedging
DeFi protocols
SQL, Linux and monitoring tools

Education: Quantitative or technical background such as maths, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering or finance
Experience: No fixed years stated; trading, operations or risk exposure helps
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Learn how perpetual futures, funding rates and basis trades work
Build a Python notebook that measures execution quality against a mid price
Understand how token market making quotes and manages inventory
Practise reading logs and basic SQL for fast diagnosis

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 IMC Trading and doesn’t handle applications.