Job Description
Senior Strategy Developer - Up to $250k base + disc bonus (100-200%+)
We are a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in high-frequency trading across global digital asset markets. Operating 24/7/365, our team spans multiple continents and consists of top-tier talent, driving innovation and efficiency in our strategies. We are a major participant in the industry, executing a significant share of global market volume.
What You’ll Do:
This is an opportunity to develop and enhance trading strategies within cryptocurrency markets. You will collaborate closely with a trader based in Asia, making it ideal for candidates located in Asia or a compatible timezone. This is a fully remote role, providing flexibility in location.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Strategy Development – Identify trading opportunities, design, and optimize high-frequency trading and market-making strategies while ensuring risk management and liquidity provision.
- Automation & Monitoring – Develop and improve automated monitoring systems for 24/7/365 trading operations.
- Software Development – Build and maintain high-performance C++ and Python applications for market data processing and order execution.
- Codebase Management – Work on existing trading infrastructure and contribute to new system developments.
- Cross-Team Collaboration – Work closely with trading, development, and business teams to refine strategies and trading infrastructure.
- Trading Oversight – Monitor algorithmic trading strategies, ensuring optimal performance from a risk, profitability, and execution perspective.
- Technical Enhancement – Identify areas for improvement in trading systems and architecture and contribute to overall performance optimizations.
- Team Engagement – Participate in discussions on system design, code reviews, trading idea brainstorming, and broader technical initiatives.
Requirements:
- Proven experience developing high-performance trading strategies in traditional financial markets or digital assets, with a focus on market making and low-latency execution.
- Deep understanding of low-latency trading algorithms, market-making mechanics, and arbitrage strategies.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience writing high-performance, maintainable, and scalable C++ code on Linux.
- Experience designing and optimizing distributed systems for high-throughput, latency-sensitive trading.
- Strong balance between writing clean, testable code and rapidly deploying new system features to capture market opportunities.
- A proactive approach to reliability and system robustness, including willingness to provide support for deployed solutions.
Highly Desirable:
- Expertise in network programming, including UDP, TCP, TLS, and WebSockets.
- Experience with C++ performance profiling tools such as Cachegrind, Valgrind, or similar.
- Hands-on experience configuring and monitoring Linux environments.
- Knowledge of inter-process messaging using shared memory.
- Familiarity with cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS.