Quantitative Trader - Crypto Prediction Markets

RAVEN; Milano; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Raven in Milan or Sofia is seeking a highly skilled quantitative trader to join our crypto market-making team. You will price and trade options, digitals, and short-dated derivatives with real capital, and optimize quotes as markets move.

You will own quoting, hedging across perpetuals and spot, and run backtests on full-depth historical data, calibrate event probabilities, and manage tail risk. The role requires strong stats, understanding of microstructure, and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Prices and trades options, digitals, or short-dated derivatives with real money behind quotes.
• Derivatives depth, including volatility surfaces, digital and barrier payoffs.
• Microstructure judgment: queue position, latency budgets, and correct price decisions.
• Strong applied statistics and probability; defend a number you publish.
• Backtest hygiene; beware look-ahead and unrealistic fills; trust replay results.
• Fluent English in professional contexts.
• Prediction-market and on-chain settlement mechanics are a plus.
• No degree required; experience matters.

Responsibilities

• Pricing digitals and barriers and managing skew, term structure, and jump risk.
• Quoting and market making with fast reprice, re-quote, and cancel logic.
• Hedging Delta into perpetuals and spot; manage funding and basis risks.
• Assess event probabilities on the unhedgeable half of the book with priors.
• Research using full-depth historical data and latency-aware backtests.
• Monitor risk across strikes, expiries, and venues; manage tail risk.

Skills

Crypto options pricing

Derivative trading

Quantitative analysis

Backtesting

Statistical methods

Market microstructure

Latency budgeting

Fluent English

Tools

Backtesting framework

Latency optimization tools

Job description

About Raven

Raven is a proprietary crypto market-making and high-frequency trading firm. We trade spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets with dedicated low-latency infrastructure across eight major trading regions.

We hire competitive individuals and natural problem solvers with a record of ranking at something hard, whether competitive programming, games, or mathematics, who treat an unfamiliar problem as a challenge rather than an obstacle. We can teach markets; we cannot teach drive.

We build our own stack end to end, from connectivity and pricing through execution, monitoring, and research data.

THE ROLE

Most crypto prediction contracts are digital options in disguise. "BTC above $X at time Y" has a liquid underlying trading right next to it, so fair value is a pricing problem, not a guess, and the risk hedges into spot and perpetuals we already trade with low latency. This cuts both ways. The underlying never stops moving, so a stale quote is easy profit for whoever is faster, and pricing, hedging, and requoting are one problem, not three. The other half of the book has nothing to hedge against. Protocol upgrades, listings, regulatory decisions, hacks, and governance votes leave you estimating a probability and standing behind it. You will own both, competing against counterparties who are equally skilled.

What You'll Own

• Pricing digitals and barriers off the crypto volatility surface. You will work the skew, term structure, and jump risk, and close the gap between a model price and what the market will actually give you
• Quoting and market making. Two-sided prices that reprice as the underlying moves, re quote and cancel logic tuned to how fast we can actually reach the venue, and inventory managed across strikes and expiries
• Hedging Delta into perpetuals and spot, funding and basis as the cost of carry, and pin risk and gamma as expiry approaches
• Event probabilities on the unhedgeable half of the book. Calibrated numbers with explicit priors, sized small when you honestly do not know
• Research on our own full-depth historical data. Backtests that respect latency and queue position, not just paper returns
• Risk Correlated exposure across strikes, expiries, and venues; tail risk through a jump; and oracle and resolution risk where settlement is a mechanism, not a given

Who We're Looking For

• You have priced and traded options, digitals, or short-dated derivatives with real money behind the quotes, in crypto or traditional markets
• Derivatives depth, including volatility surfaces, digital and barrier payoffs, and greeks you reason through rather than look up
• Microstructure judgment, meaning queue position, adverse selection, latency budgets, and why the "correct" price is not always the one you post
• Strong applied statistics and probability, with the discipline to defend a number you publish
• Backtest hygiene. You know how look-ahead and unrealistic fills creep in, and you distrust good results until they survive replay
• Fluent English
• Prediction-market and on-chain settlement mechanics are a plus. You will own oracle and resolution risk from day one, so you should already understand how a contract actually settles
• No degree required. Experience is what matters

LOGISTICS

• Sofia (Bulgaria) or Milan (Italy), with no preference between them. Whichever city the right person is in
• In office, not remote
• Crypto trades around the clock. You will share a sane on-call rotation with the team that owns these systems