Quant jobs / Virtu Financial

Options Trader

A trading role on an automated options market-making desk covering APAC markets, designing and improving volatility strategies. You work in a small team of 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.

Research and launch volatility trading strategies
Review existing strategies for improvements
Improve options pricing and volatility fitting
Build frameworks for options portfolio risk

What they ask for

Required

1-2 years options trading at an APAC automated market maker
Quantitative degree
APAC options pricing and dynamic risk
Automated market making in index, futures and equity options
Strong programming with Jupyter
Communication

Education: Degree in science, maths, engineering or another quantitative field; strong graduates considered
Experience: 1-2 years of APAC options market making; graduates considered
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Practise Greeks, risk of a book and how to hedge delta, gamma and vega
Fit a volatility surface in Jupyter on index options data
Study APAC exchange options products and conventions
Prepare for mental-maths and probability interview questions

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 Virtu Financial and doesn’t handle applications.