Electronic Options Trader
A trading role on an electronic options market-making desk, managing the risk that builds up from automated quoting across a group of names. You work with engineers and other traders to improve the risk logic.
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 and adjust the parameters that drive option pricing across your names
- Manage risk and execution across several products during the day
- Investigate unusual trades using the desk's logs and analysis tools
- Research name-specific risks and upcoming macro catalysts
- Feed improvements back to engineers on the risk logic
What they ask for
Required
- Experience managing risk on an electronic market-making desk
- Trade analysis and diagnosis
- Strong analytical skills
- Teamwork and clear communication
- In-office work five days a week
- Education
- No degree level stated
- Experience
- 2+ years managing risk on an electronic market-making desk
- Markets
- options, equities
How to prepare
- Learn the Greeks and how delta, gamma and vega exposure builds up in a market-making book
- Study how volatility surfaces change around earnings and macro events
- Practise reviewing a trade log to explain why a fill was good or bad
- Read about electronic market-making models and inventory risk
What to study
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Wolverine Trading and doesn’t handle applications.