Systematic Trader - London

B2C2

About us: Founded in 2015, B2C2 is a global leader for institutional liquidity within digital assets. We bring 24/7 365 days a year deep, reliable pricing for spot, futures, options, CFDs, and NDFs across all market conditions. Our growing team has deep expertise across pricing, structuring, risk, systems, and regulation. B2C2 bridges the gap between traditional financial and digital assets, and is relied upon by brokerages, exchanges, banks, fund managers, and other institutions to provide 24/7 liquidity. Headquartered in London, with global offices in Paris, Jersey City, Tokyo, Singapore, and Luxembourg, our fast-growing team has expertise in traditional financial and crypto markets. We pride ourselves on our company culture and ability to attract not only the top talent but the right people. If you are looking for a role in an exciting new industry, at a dynamic company please keep reading.   About the role:  As we scale, we are looking for options traders to price our OTC franchise, manage risk, monetise opportunities on exchanges, develop and deploy models. This is a high impact role at the cutting edge of digital asset trading. Duties and Responsibilities: * Responsible for generating PnL from both market-making and proprietary trading, across options and prediction markets * Manage the risk of a multi-asset trading book that includes vanilla and exotic derivatives * Price block trades for OTC clients, both via chat/voice and electronically * Collaborate with Sales to grow our OTC franchise and pitch trade ideas * Collaborate with Quant Dev and Research to deploy quantitative pricing and risk-management models and exchange trading infrastructure * Research, test and deploy new proprietary strategies and signals Required Skills and experience: * 1 - 4 years experience within Options trading, any asset class * Experience quoting clients and being responsible for risk-managing an options market-making book * Knowledge and experience with systematic trading in listed options markets, and/or prediction markets * Strong knowledge of options pricing theory, volatility modelling, probability, financial markets, macroeconomics * Interest in crypto markets * University degree in a quantitative subject, strong grades A strong culture is a common denominator among the most successful companies and B2C2 is proud to be a values-based company.   * Ambitious - Striving to make history through world class achievements * Innovative - Forward looking in our solutions for clients and employees * Meritocratic - Rewarding positive contribution across the organisation * Collegiate - Achieving through teamwork through a healthy environment * Risk Aware – Informed decision making and considered in our practices   Equal Employment Opportunities Policy:   B2C2 is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. It is the policy of B2C2 to apply recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation and professional development practices without regard to actual or perceived race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability or certain classifications based on genetic information, or because someone is married or in a civil partnership or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. As such, B2C2 will not tolerate discrimination against any of our employees on the basis of membership in a protected category. We are also committed to creating an inclusive environment to ensure we attract, engage, promote and retain the best talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles.

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. Your future role within QRT: * Active trading and monitoring of cryptocurrencies, ensuring continuous coverage of positions, strategies, and all associated risks. * Performance oversight of signals and execution strategies, identifying anomalies and driving improvements over time. * Collaboration and knowledge sharing with fellow traders and researchers, contributing insights on production results, methodologies, and data-driven processes. * Market vigilance with some weekend and late-shift coverage as part of a shared responsibility to ensure seamless 24/7 market monitoring, supported by tailored benefits. Your present skillset: * Capacity to multi-task in a fast-paced environment while keeping strong attention to detail. * Coding skills required in at least one leading programming language, Python preferred. * Experience in exploring large datasets across multiple time frames is a plus. * Intellectual curiosity to explore new data sets, solve complex problems, drive innovative processes and connect the dots between multiple fields. * Capacity to work with autonomy within a collegial and collaborative environment. * Trading expertise and market knowledge which can be leveraged in the systematic space. * Strong capacity to communicate with technologists, researchers and traders across the globe. * Good fundamental crypto knowledge is a benefit. QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Maven Securities

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate. THE ROLE We are looking for an ambitious and proactive Equity Options Quant Trader to join our Vol Alpha Trading Team. This is a full-cycle quant trader position within a semi-systematic desk that specialises in statistical arbitrage relative value volatility,  flow-aware volatility position taking, and opportunistic dispersion trades across global equity volatilities, with a current emphasis on US equity options. The team runs an investment operation focusing on informed position taking combining statistical information and market flows observations. The successful candidate will play a key role in the desk’s day to day operation and future evolution as it expands its volatility strategies set as well as broader operation capabilities across products. The role will suit candidates with quantitative research or trading experience as part of a large volatility desk who want to transition into a more hands-on buy side risk-taking role which deploy statistical methods to extract alpha while having full understanding on what is driving an alpha’s performance. The successful candidate will experience an end-to-end investment process from market intuition, alpha discovery, to trade execution, which translates to a potential heavy contribution to the desk’s success and take meaningful ownership in PnL. RESPONSIBILITIES * Monitor and rationalise market flow to identify pricing dislocations * Analyse and interpret other market participants’ positionings to identify trading opportunities * Conduct research and backtests on pricing and structuring volatility curve, term structure, relative value and dispersion trades * Contribute to new alpha discovery through a combination of market dynamics observations and quantitative research toolings * Active participation in trading and risk-managing an extensive equity options portfolio as part of a team * Active participation in the desk’s future build-out into a bigger set of alpha and systematic strategies * Full end-to-end investment cycle from intuition, research, to execution * Collaboration with infrastructure and development teams to optimise electronic trading execution and minimise dependencies CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS * 2–5 years’ experience in US equity options quantitative research or trading. Experience from a major vol desk is a plus (bank, or multi-strategy hedge fund preferred) * Strong understanding of options markets, volatility, and equity derivatives * Exposure to or strong interest in volatility relative value, volatility carry, term structure and path, or dispersion strategies * Commercial trading mindset with appetite for risk ownership and strategy responsibility * Strong interest and ability to operate in a fast-moving, opportunistic trading environment * Strong analytical skills and research capabilities * Familiarity with Python and SQL or similar programming and database languages WHAT WE OFFER * A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact * Competitive compensation package * Annual discretionary bonus * Group pension plan * Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service * 25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays) * Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks prepared by an in-house chef * Private healthcare and life assurance * On-site private gym with instructor-led classes including boxing, yoga, and more * Monthly company events and social activities