Senior Lead Trading Strategist

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous refinement of market-making and trading strategies informed by market microstructure, participant behavior, and risk constraints.
• Translate quantitative research and hypotheses into scalable, production-grade trading systems in close partnership with Engineers, Data Scientists, and fellow Strategists.
• Architect and evolve backtesting frameworks that accurately model execution, liquidity dynamics, and behavioral responses.
• Develop and oversee real-time decision engines that price markets, optimize inventory, and react to high-frequency event streams.
• Set technical direction for trading systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability in production environments.
• Contribute on monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for live systems, enabling rapid diagnosis and resolution of anomalies.
• Communicate strategy vision, system behavior, and business impact clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decision-making across teams.

What You’ll Bring

• At least 7 years of experience in machine learning, quantitative modeling, or algorithmic strategy development.
• Experience working with automated trading systems, prediction markets, sports betting, or crypto and decentralized finance environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python (including NumPy, Pandas, and PyTorch) and experience with C++, C#, Java, or Rust for performance-critical systems.
• Deep expertise in market making, market microstructure, liquidity modeling, and risk-aware optimization.
• Strong foundation in statistical and probabilistic modeling, including time-series analysis and signal evaluation.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence cross-functional teams.

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $184,000.00 USD - $230,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.