• Monitor and rationalise crypto market flows across spot, perpetuals, futures, and options to identify volatility and skew dislocations.
• Analyse exchange-level positioning, funding dynamics, open interest, and on/off-exchange flows to uncover structural and tactical trading opportunities.
• Research and backtest volatility surface dynamics, term structure, skew behaviour, relative value and dispersion trades across major digital assets (e.g. BTC, ETH and liquid altcoins).
• Develop and refine alpha signals combining market microstructure insights with quantitative research tools.
• Actively participate in trading and risk-managing a multi-exchange crypto options portfolio, including delta, vega, gamma, and cross-venue risk.
• Contribute to the desk’s expansion into systematic and semi-systematic volatility strategies.
• Own the full investment lifecycle from intuition and thesis development through modelling, execution, and post-trade performance analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimise electronic execution, improve latency-sensitive routing, and enhance automation across exchanges.
• Monitor exchange counterparty risk, liquidity fragmentation, and structural inefficiencies unique to crypto derivatives markets.

Hard skills requirements:

• 3-5+ years of option market making at one of the top tier trading firms in the space (must have); we prefer proprietary trading experience with significant component of systematic and algorithmic trading (not only position taking or executing client trades)
• Deep understanding of option pricing and risk frameworks; ability to design these from scratch based on prior expertise
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills: we will test (must have)
• Python/coding skills is a significant advantage; otherwise, willingness and ability to learn Python within several months on own time is required

Other requirements:

• Have an owner mentality - you focus on the ultimate result - P&L for the company and strategically growing the business and Wintermute partnerships
• Love problem solving, and love seeing your products work; you do whatever it takes to do what’s needed (trading, coding, analysing data, collaborating).
• Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way.
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset versus working 9-to-5 mentality; prepared to work non-standard working hours (since we are a pivotal player in the crypto markets that don’t stop 24/7).
• Like working in a team collaborative environment.