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

ALPHA LADDER GROUP PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ALPHA LADDER GROUP PTE. LTD. in Singapore invites exceptional Quant Traders to join as founding members of a new quantitative trading desk focused on tokenized securities.

You will apply liquidity provision, pricing, inventory management, and hedging techniques drawn from equities, FX, and derivatives to tokenized assets. As a core pioneer, you will design automated two-sided market making across tokenized equities, gold, and digital assets, ensuring continuous liquidity across venues while

Responsibilities

• 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
• Own real-time inventory and trading risk

Skills

Quant trading

Market making

Algorithmic trading

Financial markets

Tools

Automated trading systems

Market data feeds

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