Role in brief
Crypto is seeking a Trading Support Analyst to enhance the reliability of their trading systems. This role is suitable for candidates with over three years of experience in electronic trading and strong analytical skills.
About the role
In this position, you will be part of the Trading team that develops quantitative trading strategies across various markets, including crypto. Your main responsibility will be to support live systematic trading while ensuring the efficient operation of trading systems and processes.
You will monitor live trading environments, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with traders and developers to resolve any production challenges. Success in this role involves effectively analyzing trading metrics and developing tools to enhance operational efficiency.
The salary range for this role is between $75,000 and $125,000, depending on experience.
Skills that matter here
- Order lifecycle: This role requires a strong understanding of the order lifecycle to manage trading processes effectively.
- Troubleshooting: You will need to troubleshoot issues calmly in a fast-paced trading environment.
- Python scripting: Strong Python skills are essential for developing tools and automating processes.
- SQL: Experience with SQL is preferred for analyzing trading datasets.
- Analytical skills: Analytical skills are crucial for identifying issues and improving trading operations.
- Communication skills: You will coordinate with various stakeholders, making communication skills vital.
Who this role suits
- Candidates should have a background in electronic trading or related fields.
- A calm demeanor under pressure is important for troubleshooting in real-time trading scenarios.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are essential.
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical teams is necessary.
From the employer
- Monitor live trading systems, strategies, orders, positions, P&L, and risk.
- Act as the first line of support for trading, execution, exchange connectivity, and production issues.
- Investigate and resolve order, position, P&L, reconciliation, and trading-system exceptions.
- Coordinate with traders, quantitative developers, exchanges, brokers, and other counterparties to resolve live trading issues.
- Support strategy deployments, system releases, testing, and production changes.
- Monitor exchange and market events, outages, connectivity issues, and other operational risks.
- Analyze trading and operational metrics to identify issues and improve processes.
- Develop tools and automation to improve monitoring, reconciliation, reporting, and trading operations.
- Maintain operational procedures and controls for production trading.
- Participate in local trading coverage and rotating weekend coverage.
- 3+ years of experience in electronic trading, trade support, trading operations, production support, or a related role.
- Strong understanding of electronic trading, order lifecycle, positions, P&L, and risk.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues calmly and effectively in a fast-moving production environment.
- Strong Python or scripting skills; SQL experience is preferred.
- Experience working with large trading or market datasets.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Preferred: Experience supporting systematic, algorithmic, or market-making trading.
- Preferred: Experience with prediction markets, equities, crypto, futures, options, or other derivatives.
- Preferred: Experience with exchange APIs, FIX, order-book data, or real-time trading systems.
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
This position is hybrid, allowing for some flexibility in work location.
What level of experience is required?
Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in electronic trading or a related role.
How do I apply for this role?
Details on how to apply are not provided in the input.