Trading Analyst

Wintermute•New York, NY

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Wintermute is seeking a Trading Analyst for its New York office. This role involves working on the front line with traders to expand and improve trading activities across multiple markets and strategies. It is a highly cross-functional position offering direct exposure to all areas of the business, with opportunities to learn directly from traders, collaborate with developers to integrate and upgrade infrastructure, and play a role in the early rapid expansion of Wintermute Americas. The ideal candidate will have strong Python coding skills, demonstrable experience working collaboratively within a development team, and a genuine curiosity about HFT, market making, and crypto trading.

Requirements

Strong Python Skills: strong experience coding in Python within a collaborative development environment (work, team projects, or open-source).
Good quantitative and analytical skills.
Strong willingness and curiosity to learn algorithmic, high-frequency, quantitative, and market-making trading.
Trading intuition (e.g., understanding risk, market dynamics, and what fundamentally separates a good trade from a bad trade).
Eligible to work in the US.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrable experience working collaboratively within a development team.
An understanding of DeFi and Blockchain would be a valuable bonus.

Responsibilities

Roll out trading for new instruments.
Design, build and deploy automated infrastructure and tools to streamline trading processes across the desk.
Support in troubleshooting and debugging live trading systems, detecting and addressing any system errors.
Design and maintain data visualisations that deliver insights and actionable market information for traders.
Manage service deployments to ensure the trading environment operates reliably and within defined performance thresholds.
Conduct trade reconciliation, ensuring the accuracy of trade economics and settlement agreements.