Digital Assets Trader - Market Making (APAC Remote)

About Keyrock

Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.

Today, we rock with over 180 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels and Singapore, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

What we are looking for… a Digital Assets Trader for the APAC Time zone, supporting our core Algorithmic Trading Business.

Job description

• Supporting the deployment of new algorithms, clients and markets

• Keeping a global updated view of all algorithmic trading operations

• Trade execution across crypto spot, perpetuals and options; and hedging both crypto and FX related exposure.

• Trading operations including asset rebalancing across multiple CEXs and DEXs; and facilitating settlement of assets against several trading counterparties.

• Preventative actions by spread adaptations and configuring conditions, pricing and exposure thresholds on algorithmic trading bots.

• Monitoring closely client service level agreements are met and evaluating trading performance using internal, exchange and on-chain data.

• Keeping track of the treasury, and liaising with the finance team on accounting for asset balances across operations.

• Keeping track of and reporting technical and financial problems and providing support to the dev team for improvement.

• Acting as a point of call internally on trading and market related insights.

• Liaising with the Commercial team to provide insights to market making clients on trading performance and service level agreement requirements.

Background and experience

• 2-3+ years of cryptocurrency trading experience across CEXes and DEXes either on a professional basis or with clear demonstrable evidence of trading a personal portfolio to a high level

• Exposure to and an understanding of key tradfi asset classes e.g., options, futures, FX either from a previous role or educational background.

Competences and personality

• Strong analytical ability

• Fully comfortable with trading and order books

• Able to act and to take decisions under pressure

• Digital native

• Understanding of digital assets and blockchain technologies (particularly CEXes and DEXes)

• Understanding of financial market structure

• Strong attention to details

• Adaptable and a strong team player

• Basic coding skills or ability to review queries and code in SQL and at least basic working knowledge of Python.

• Good communicator

• Fluent in English

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or freelancer).

• The opportunity to work remotely

• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence

As an employer we are committed to build an inclusive, diverse and non-discriminating work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creed and sexual orientation. We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

https://keyrock.com/careers/