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Junior Crypto Trader

Manage digital-asset and electronic FX trading risks at UBS. The position monitors automated pricing and hedging, with manual intervention when markets or systems require it.

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.

Monitor digital-asset exposures during weekend trading.
Intervene in pricing or hedging during outages or extreme markets.
Analyse trading data and refine the electronic service with quants.
Coordinate incidents and contribute to future product requirements.

What they ask for

Required

Digital-asset or eFX desk experience
Crypto market participants and settlement
Trading risk judgement
Large-dataset analysis
Availability for weekend work

Preferred

Electronic-trading tools and data visualisation

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: Previous digital-asset or eFX experience; no minimum years stated.
Languages and tools: Python
MATLAB
KDB+/q
JupyterHub
Markets: crypto, fx, commodities

How to prepare

Build a dashboard for crypto inventory and hedge exposures.
Analyse liquidity and spreads during weekend markets.
Write an incident playbook for an automated pricing outage.

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