Structure Financial
Algorithmic Trader
RemoteFull-timeGlobal
š Remote
RemoteRemote work position availableActivePosted within the last 30 days
Job Description
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You will research, design, test, and deploy systematic crypto trading strategies across on-chain and off-chain venues. You will build lightweight analyses and backtests, define signals and evaluation criteria, and refine execution and risk assumptions. You will validate strategy performance, produce clear research notes and specs, and iterate quickly from idea to live deployment. If you demonstrate strong judgment and real edge, you may take ownership of a trading mandate and manage P&L.
Requirements
- āGenuine interest in crypto markets, systematic trading, and automated strategy development
- āExperience creating testing or operating trading strategies, even if personal, academic, or self-directed
- āComfortable reasoning from data including backtests, charts, notebooks, spreadsheets, SQL, Python, R, or similar workflows
- āStrong intuition for risk, liquidity, fees, execution quality, and live versus backtest failure modes
- āAbility to explain a trading idea clearly including edge, signal, market conditions, risks, and expected behavior
- āHigh agency and curiosity with a focus on fast testing and learning
- āCoding ability helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- āResearch, design, and iterate on systematic crypto trading strategies across perps, spot, funding-rate arbitrage, basis trades, DeFi yield, market making, CEX/DEX arbitrage, and on-chain market structure
- āUse strategy design and backtesting tools to move ideas to tested strategies and live deployments quickly
- āBuild offline analyses, models, notebooks, or lightweight research workflows to evaluate strategy ideas
- āDefine signals, datasets, parameters, benchmarks, and evaluation criteria for new strategies
- āBacktest strategies accounting for fees, slippage, liquidity, execution assumptions, and market regime changes
- āValidate product workflows from a trader perspective to improve iteration speed and remove deployment blockers
- āWork with engineering and product to improve backtesting, monitoring, risk controls, strategy templates, and deployment workflows
- āProduce clear research notes, strategy specifications, examples, and internal playbooks to turn intuition into repeatable systems
- āOwn trading mandates and manage strategy performance when fit and results warrant expanded responsibility
Benefits & Perks
- āAccess to strategy design backtesting and deployment platform
- āRemote flexibility with the option to work in office
- āCompetitive compensation
- āPotential token or equity participation
Tech Stack
perpetual futuresliquiditytradingmarket makingresearchAMMbacktestingSQLPythonsystematic trading