Crypto Market-Making Quant Trader

Kappa Lab Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Offices in London and Dubai

Job summary

Kappa Lab Ltd. is a digital-assets market maker with round-the-clock liquidity across 50+ venues, driven by proprietary models. We seek a Quantitative Trader to own live market-making strategies and push innovative ideas from research to production.

You will explore new strategies, analyse execution metrics, and work closely with engineering to deploy robust trading systems. Staff enjoy hybrid London/Dubai offices and a collaborative, data-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative reasoning applied to noisy market data.
• Production-grade Python with maintainable code and version control.
• Ability to translate large market datasets into actionable decisions.
• Familiarity with cryptocurrency markets, blockchain tech, and trading concepts.
• Sound judgement about sizing, hedging, or stopping when appropriate.
• Proactive mindset to identify opportunities and execute quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own live market-making strategies: tune quoting, sizes, spreads, hedging.
• Research, prototype, and launch new quantitative strategies across venues/assets.
• Analyze execution quality: fill, adverse selection, spreads, costs.
• Work in a configuration-as-code platform with version-controlled parameters.
• Monitor live trading and manage risk during volatile conditions.
• Collaborate with engineering and contribute code to trading systems.

Skills

Quantitative reasoning

Python

Data-driven decisions

Crypto markets

Risk management

Proactive mindset

Tools

Rust

Job description

Kappa Lab Ltd. is a digital-assets market maker with round-the-clock liquidity across 50+ venues, driven by proprietary models. We seek a Quantitative Trader to own live market-making strategies and push innovative ideas from research to production.

You will explore new strategies, analyse execution metrics, and work closely with engineering to deploy robust trading systems. Staff enjoy hybrid London/Dubai offices and a collaborative, data-driven culture.