Senior HFT Trader / PM

AAA Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

AAA Global is seeking a Senior HFT Trader / PM to build and lead a new trading business focused on Traditional Finance and Real-World Assets. The role combines strategy, trading, risk management and team leadership.

You will own the development of systematic intraday strategies across TradFi and digital markets, collaborate with researchers and engineers, and enable 24/7 trading operations including extended hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional trading experience, ideally in HFT, prop trading or quant trading.
• Demonstrated track record of generating and managing live trading P&L.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to build a new trading business from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a systematic intraday / HFT trading strategy across TradFi and RWA markets.
• Identify and capture cross-market relative-value and statistical arbitrage opportunities.
• Develop strategies around pricing dislocations between traditional financial instruments and their tokenized / digital representations.
• Develop fair-value models and trading signals when underlying markets are closed or liquidity is fragmented.
• Trade and manage positions on a 24/7 basis where appropriate, including extended-hours and digital-asset markets.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and engineers to develop signals, execution models and automated trading systems.

Skills

HFT

Quant trading

P&L management

Entrepreneurial mindset

Cross-market trading

Job description

Our client, a leading HFT crypto firm, is looking for a Senior HFT Trader / PM to build and lead a new trading business focused on Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Real-World Assets (RWA).

This is a business-building opportunity for an experienced trader who can identify and develop systematic, intraday trading opportunities across traditional and digital markets. The successful candidate will have significant ownership over strategy development, trading, risk management and ultimately the build-out of a scalable trading business.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a systematic intraday / HFT trading strategy across TradFi and RWA markets.
• Identify and capture cross-market relative-value and statistical arbitrage opportunities.
• Develop strategies around pricing dislocations between traditional financial instruments and their tokenized / digital representations.
• Develop fair-value models and trading signals when underlying markets are closed or liquidity is fragmented.
• Trade and manage positions on a 24/7 basis where appropriate, including extended-hours and digital-asset markets.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and engineers to develop signals, execution models and automated trading systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional trading experience, ideally in HFT, proprietary trading or quantitative trading.
• Demonstrated track record of generating and managing live trading P&L.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to build a new trading business from the ground up.

Preferred Background

Candidates from:

• HFT firms
• Proprietary trading firms
• Quantitative hedge funds
• ETF / index market makers