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Digital Assets Trader

Digital Assets Trader

CompanyFidelity Investments
LocationBoston, MA, USA
Salary$100000 – $165000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in trading or quantitative investment functions.
  • Direct experience trading on-chain, and interacting with smart contracts, preferred.
  • Strong technical aptitude with demonstrated experience and knowledge of programming languages (Python, MATLAB, R) and SQL.
  • Experience with implementation of model-based investing strategies.
  • Advanced degree in Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, or a closely related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the daily execution of digital asset funds and separate accounts.
  • Collaborate with research and technology on development and implementation of long-only, risk-managed and market neutral strategies, including operational and risk systems to support the activity.
  • Understand the downstream process of the trading desk (i.e. accounting, settlement, reconciliation) and communicate with the operations teams supporting those processes clearly and effectively to resolve daily issues.
  • Understand the legal and compliance issues that surround our trading process and the products that we trade. Have a clear grasp on how compliance matters affect trading and understand the escalation process.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ability to manage through day-to-day rigors of an operationally critical environment; obsessive attention to detail.
  • Collaborate across teams whose skill sets span operations, research, and risk management to systematize our approach to trading and risk management.
  • Communicate performance, risk, positioning, and rebalance metrics to ensure alignment with the Research team’s model portfolio.
  • Build data-based tools and workflows to further systematize our approach to trading and risk management.
  • Contribute to product development to improve client outcomes; high level of intellectual curiosity.