Graduate Algorithmic Trader 2027

CryptoproNetwork; New York (NY); Híbrido; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Office in New York City

Descripción de la vacante

Wintermute in New York City seeks a junior quantitative trader-analyst with strong Python skills to join our 24/7 algorithmic trading team. You will analyze large data sets, test ideas, and contribute to trading strategy development after a short training period.

The role emphasizes learning, curiosity, and ownership, with collaboration across teams and opportunities to advance as you prove your impact in a fast-growing crypto and traditional markets environment.

Formación

• Strong Python programming experience (1–3 years).
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
• Willingness to learn algorithmic, high-frequency, quantitative and liquidity provision trading.

Responsabilidades

• After a short training period, you’ll help improve existing strategies and develop new trading products.
• Analyze large volumes of trading data, generate insights, and build solutions based on findings to impact performance.

Conocimientos

Python

Quantitative analysis

Trading concepts

Descripción del empleo

About Wintermute Wintermute is a global electronic trading firm operating across digital assets, prediction markets and traditional financial markets. We provide liquidity and trade at scale across major cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, while expanding our activity across traditional financial products, including equities and commodities.Alongside our liquidity provision and proprietary trading activities, we provide a broad range of OTC trading solutions and work with leading financial institutions, exchanges, blockchain projects and other major participants across global markets.Wintermute has scaled beyond digital assets and continues to expand into new markets where technology and market structure create opportunities for innovation. This includes our growing presence in prediction markets and traditional finance, alongside our established position as one of the leading liquidity providers in digital assets. You can read more What will you work onAfter a short training period with the traders, you’ll be tasked with improving existing strategies, adding new trading products and improving the technology behind our trading systems. You’ll need to analyze large amounts of trading and transaction data, generate insights, prioritize them and build solutions based on your findings. You can expect to be able to make an immediate impact on P&L and will be encouraged to explore new ideas and strategies. We will share more technical details in the interviews. The point is: there is no limit set by the company!Note: we are looking for people with strong quantitative and coding skills, but this is a business/trading (not a Quant/ research) role first and foremost.

Hard Skills Requirements

• Strong Python skills - you have 1-3 years of experience coding in Python, be that through work, study or personal project experience - we will test!
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills - we will test!
• Trading knowledge isn’t required but a strong willingness and curiosity to learn algorithmic, high-frequency, quantitative and liquidity provision trading is crucial. We will be testing you on your trading intuition.

Other Requirements

• Have an owner mentality - you focus on ultimate result (short and long-term P&L for the company), focus on strategically growing the business for the future vs “cashing-in” fast.
• Love problem solving, and love seeing your products work; you do whatever it takes to do what’s needed (trading, coding, analysing data, collaborating).
• Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way.
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset versus working 9-to-5 mentality; prepared to work non-standard working hours (since we are a high-growth startup operating in 24/7 crypto world).
• Like working in the team environment.

Here is why you should join our dynamic team:

• Opportunity to work at one of the world's leading algorithmic trading firms in digital assets.
• Engaging projects offering accelerated responsibilities and ownership compared to traditional finance environments.
• A vibrant working culture with team meals, festive celebrations, gaming events and company wide team building events.
• A cool office in the heart of New York City which often hosts some of the leading industry events.
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional with a startup vibe, collaborative and entrepreneurial.
• A performance-based compensation with a significant earning upside alongside standard perks like medical insurance.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.