Options Market Making Trader – APAC Growth Role

Nine Mile, Inc; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nine Mile’s Sydney-based team seeks an experienced Trader to join our options market-making group across APAC. You will develop and execute strategies, manage risk, and own how the book is traded in a dynamic, high-velocity environment.

This early-stage role offers genuine ownership, collaboration with a small, technical trading team, and the chance to shape growth in a expanding options business at Nine Mile. Strong quantitative skills and Python proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of options trading or market making experience at a High-Frequency Trading or Market Making firm.
• Deep understanding of options pricing and risk, including volatility surfaces, the greeks, skew, and term structure.
• Hands-on experience running and managing an options book, including dynamic hedging.
• A track record of developing and owning trading strategies, with the appetite to help grow a new area of the business.
• Strong grasp of options and derivatives market microstructure.

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing options market making strategies across APAC, with scope to grow across a range of products and asset classes over time.
• Pricing options and managing the book across the greeks, volatility surface, skew, and term structure.
• Dynamically hedging options risk using underlying equities, futures, and ETFs.
• Identifying and exploiting relative value and arbitrage opportunities across options, their underlyings, ETFs, and related derivative instruments.
• Researching and developing new systematic trading opportunities within options markets.
• Working closely with technology to design and improve pricing models, quoting engines, and execution tools tailored to options market microstructure.
• Collaborating closely with the broader market-making team.
• Proactively engaging with regulators, exchanges, issuers, and brokers across APAC options and derivatives markets.

Skills

Options trading

Market making

Quantitative analysis

Probability & statistics

Numerical skills

Education

Mathematics/Engineering/Physics/Econometrics/CS degree

Tools

Python

Job description

Nine Mile’s Sydney-based team seeks an experienced Trader to join our options market-making group across APAC. You will develop and execute strategies, manage risk, and own how the book is traded in a dynamic, high-velocity environment.

This early-stage role offers genuine ownership, collaboration with a small, technical trading team, and the chance to shape growth in a expanding options business at Nine Mile. Strong quantitative skills and Python proficiency are essential.