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Quantitative Trader | Crypto Options
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
A Quantitative Trader role on BlockTech's options trading team in Amsterdam, owning and operating automated trading systems for crypto derivatives and spot markets. The senior trader will also shape the desk's direction and develop new strategies with researchers and engineers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Amsterdam, Netherlands
What you'll do
- Own the systems: monitor, operate, and tune automated trading systems in live markets
- Manage positions and risk, adjusting pricing and parameters as market behaviour shifts
- Bring new ideas to the desk, drawing on previous experience
- Develop and deploy new strategies together with quantitative researchers and engineers
- Identify and research new business opportunities as markets change
What we're looking for
- A strong academic background in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, statistics, or computer science
- 3+ years of quantitative trading experience
- Proficiency in Python, with excellent numerical and algorithmic skills
- Focus and sound judgment behind the screen when markets get busy
Nice to have
- Experience at a proprietary trading firm or hedge fund, particularly with mid-frequency strategies, prediction markets or DeFi
Your team
options trading team
Benefits
- Competitive base salary plus a very attractive performance bonus based on individual and company results
- Strong performers get the opportunity to buy into the trading fund
- BlockTech sponsors the Dutch highly skilled migrant visa
- All-in relocation package and Dutch classes for international hires
- Eligible hires may qualify for the 30% ruling
- Pension plan, company laptop, and home internet reimbursement
- An extensive in-house training program and an annual learning and development budget
- An environment that embraces AI, both to speed up your work and to advance our systems
- Gym reimbursement and sports during working hours: kickboxing, CrossFit, fitness, and soccer
- Weekly Friday drinks, monthly outings, quarterly sports competitions, and two trips abroad a year
- Daily breakfast and warm lunch, plus snacks and drinks all day
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About BlockTech
BlockTech is an algorithmic trading firm headquartered in Amsterdam, with a second office in Singapore. We specialize in market making and trade cryptocurrency derivatives and spot markets globally, using our own capital. We're growing fast and expanding into new markets.
Mission
Revolutionizing trading through automation
Key facts
- Amsterdam
- algorithmic trading
- Headquartered in Amsterdam, with a second office in Singapore
- Specializes in market making
- Trades cryptocurrency derivatives and spot markets globally
- Uses its own capital
- Traders work side by side with quantitative researchers and engineers
- Flat hierarchy
What they value
- The best idea wins, whoever it comes from
- Reverse leadership
- Equal playing field
- Invest in personal and professional development
- Collaborative approach