Head of Live Trading Risk & Hedging Engine

Deciml; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Deciml is building a funded trading platform for crypto perpetuals and seeks a hands-on risk leader to own the trading risk engine, exposure rules, hedging and payout economics. You will work with Product and Engineering to enable growth with precise risk controls and targeted improvements.

You will drive live risk decisions, establish measurable risk limits, and develop monitoring, routing and hedging strategies that support ambitious product launches while protecting payouts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in trading risk, dealing, quantitative trading, market making or a closely related function preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of live trading exposure is more important than tenure.
• Direct experience with funded trader platforms, retail FX or CFD brokers, crypto derivatives exchanges, proprietary trading firms or market makers.
• Strong knowledge of perpetuals, leverage, margin, liquidation, funding and market microstructure.
• Practical experience with A book and B book management, hedging, routing and liquidity providers.
• Experience analysing trader behaviour, trading abuse and correlated accounts.
• Comfortable using SQL, Python or equivalent tools to work directly with trading data.
• Able to translate risk logic into precise product and engineering requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build the logic for A book, B book and hybrid routing across funded accounts.
• Determine when the firm should hedge positions on external venues and when exposure can remain internal.
• Measure shadow P&L so a trader's apparent profitability is tested against real fees, funding, spread, slippage and execution costs.
• Configure and continuously review leverage, margin requirements, available instruments, spreads, mark ups and other trading conditions.
• Monitor execution speed, fills, rejected orders, pricing anomalies, market gaps and platform incidents.
• Investigate toxic flow, latency arbitrage, coordinated trading, copy trading, multi account abuse and attempts to exploit payout rules.
• Lead the response during unusual volatility, system failures and concentrated exposure events.
• Produce clear recommendations and risk reports for the founders and senior leadership.

Skills

Trading risk

Risk management

Quant trading

SQL

Python

Hedging

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Deciml is building a funded trading platform for crypto perpetuals and seeks a hands-on risk leader to own the trading risk engine, exposure rules, hedging and payout economics. You will work with Product and Engineering to enable growth with precise risk controls and targeted improvements.

You will drive live risk decisions, establish measurable risk limits, and develop monitoring, routing and hedging strategies that support ambitious product launches while protecting payouts.