Quantitative Trader - Market Making (Tokenized Securities & Digital Assets)

METACOMP PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

METACOMP PTE. LTD. is seeking exceptional Quant Traders to join a new liquidity-driven desk in Singapore. Founding member role to apply proven market making across tokenized assets and help define liquidity strategies for tokenized securities.

You will design and operate automated two-sided market making, manage inventory and risk, and collaborate with engineering for low-latency on-chain execution and cross-venue liquidity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate automated two-sided market making strategies across tokenized equities and digital assets
• Provide continuous and competitive liquidity across centralized and decentralized venues
• Develop pricing, quoting, hedging, and execution models
• Manage inventory, spreads, and execution quality under live market conditions
• Collaborate with risk, compliance, treasury, and custody teams to ensure governance and controls

Job description

The Opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to join as one of the founding members of a new quantitative trading desk

We are looking for exceptional Quant Traders who can apply proven market making techniques from traditional financial markets while helping define liquidity strategies for the next generation of tokenized financial instruments

The role combines two key mandates

• Apply established liquidity provision, pricing, inventory management, and hedging strategies from equities, FX, commodities, and derivatives to tokenized assets
• Research and develop new trading strategies that capitalize on the unique characteristics of tokenization, including
  24/7 market
  On-chain settlement
  Mint/redeem mechanic
  Cross-chain and cross-venue liquidity fragmentation
  Basis opportunities between tokenized assets and their underlying securitie

Key Responsibilities

Market Making & Trading

• Design, develop, and operate automated two-sided market making strategies across
• Tokenized equities
• Tokenized gold, Digital assets
• Provide continuous and competitive liquidity across centralized and decentralized trading venues
• Develop pricing, quoting, hedging, and execution models
• Manage inventory, spreads, and execution quality under live market conditions

Risk & Portfolio Management

• Own real-time inventory and trading risk
• Manage Position sizing
• Inventory skew Adverse selection
• Position limits, Weekend and overnight gap risks
• Hedge tokenized equity and commodity exposure using: Underlying cash instruments Futures,Tokenized proxies,Delta-one product

Quantitative Research

• Research and develop alpha opportunities unique to tokenized markets, including
• Basis trading between tokenized assets and underlying securities
• Mint/redeem (primary issuance) arbitrage
• Cross-chain liquidity fragmentation
• Cross-exchange arbitrage
• Stablecoin settlement efficiencies
• Funding and basis opportunities on derivatives
• Market microstructure optimization

Technology & Infrastructure

• Partner closely with engineering teams to build
• Low-latency execution systems
• Exchange connectivity
• DEX integration
• On-chain execution capabilities
• Monitoring and alerting system
• Trading infrastructure improvement

Operations & Governance

• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Custody teams
• upport robust trading governance within a CMS-licensed environment
• Manage operational aspects of tokenized securities including
• Corporate actions,Dividend
• Stock split,sIssuer dependencies