Fully Remote: Asia, Europe, North America
- Full-Time / Contractor
- Trading
Quantitative Trader
Help us run and improve systematic crypto trading in a fast-moving, high-agency environment.
JPEG Trading
JPEG Trading is hiring a quantitative trader to monitor liquidity, manage risk, and work closely with engineers to improve trading systems.
About JPEG Trading
We’re a lean proprietary trading firm. Small headcount, high agency, very efficient. We reward independence and initiative.
Focused on identifying and capturing inefficiencies across the crypto ecosystem: CEXes, DEXes and other types of onchain protocols.
We trade spot and perpetual futures across all crypto assets, RWAs, and prediction markets.
Our business is growing explosively and we’re looking for a strong trader with experience managing risk in a high-stakes fast-paced environment.
This role requires accepting a rotating schedule of weekend on-call coverage to monitor algorithms and respond to alerts. It’s a 24/7 industry and everyone on the team contributes to covering all time zones.
Responsibilities
- Manage PnL across active strategies with a strong focus on disciplined decision-making and capital preservation.
- Monitor market, position, and operational risk in real time and respond quickly when conditions change.
- Analyze market data and trading performance to improve existing algorithms and help identify new opportunities.
- Work with external trading and operations counterparties to keep trading workflows running smoothly.
- Partner closely with engineers to drive improvements in trading infrastructure, tooling, and execution systems.
Requirements
- Prior experience trading crypto or other liquid markets programmatically (personal, academic, or professional).
- Fluency in data analysis tools (and must be strong with google sheets / excel).
- Understanding of trading APIs, order books, on-chain data, etc.
- Comfortable working autonomously and iterating quickly in a fast-moving environment.
- High intellectual curiosity, low ego, and strong internal drive.
Nice to Have
- Previous experience managing a portfolio.
- Technical competency with Python, SQL, AI.
- Market making, arbitrage, HFT, and/or MEV trading experience.
- Prior crypto experience at a hedge fund, prop shop, or trading desk.
- Based and/or memester, to keep things fun.
Comp
Base + variable performance-based profit share bonus.
Other
Must pass criminal and civil background check, professional reference checks, and do liveness KYC check with government issued identity documents.
Must pass not-north-korean screening.