Company Background
Adaptive Frontier is a proprietary systematic trading firm that provides 24/7/365 liquidity to the global cryptocurrency markets. We run a suite of high frequency, low latency, delta neutral market making strategies on a wide variety of exchanges that reliably deliver alpha in all market conditions.
The founders are crypto native veterans who have thrived through many cycles with backgrounds from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley totaling over 25+ years of combined industry experience trading USD$1B+ daily notional, consistently outperforming much larger and better funded teams. In this role you'll have direct access to the founders and work alongside them on a daily basis.
Our culture values constant learning, continuous improvement, fast iteration, and relentless resourcefulness. We focus on results, not effort. We embrace sharing ideas with an open mind and engage in healthy debate to evaluate everything from first principles. Our org chart is exceptionally flat and we abhor bureaucracy in favor of nimble adaptivity, simplicity, and pragmatism, preferring to focus on results instead of only effort.
Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking an Algorithmic Trader to join our rapidly growing team and help manage and grow a suite of systematic strategies that trades tens of billions of dollars a month.
You will play a major role in helping to bring trading ideas and improvements from inception to deployment, and therefore intimately learn the lifecycle of maintaining and improving a robust HFT trading business. You'll have deep involvement in the gathering and analyzing of data to inform strategy development and parameter tuning. Ultimately you will develop and hone the skills to ideate, architect, develop, test, deploy, and manage trading strategies across their entire lifecycle. As a result, you will also have a direct and measurable impact on P&L and commensurately share in the upside of the firm.
Expectations
The ideal candidate:
Exhibits strong logical reasoning
Possesses strong quantitative skills alongside attention to detail
Displays an entrepreneurial mindset with high energy and a can-do attitude
Enjoys problem solving and has no fear of learning and doing detailed work to get to desired results
Prefers simplicity and pragmatism, likes to take a lean and iterative approach to solving problems
Embraces 80/20 thinking
Proactively seeks out ways to automate and improve areas of the business they are assigned to
Uses a deeply data-backed approach to decision making and communicating ideas
Clearly communicates how data implies a particular conclusion; considers and explains alternative explanations for what the data shows
Thrives in a culture of passionate learning and teaching
Loves to reflect on challenges and improve process
Possesses humility and expresses kindness to self and others
Keeps on top of crypto industry news and updates
Must be currently located in Hong Kong
Requirements
Nice to Haves
Benefits
Work directly with founders and an extremely high caliber team on interesting, challenging, and lucrative problems in a lightning paced, fascinating industry at the forefront of technology to develop and hone valuable, scalable skills.
Avoid bureaucracy while speedrunning fast-track access to obtain the responsibilities, ownership, and commensurate rewards that would require years of grinding the corporate ladder in other organizations.
Acquire potentially enormous upside with above market compensation, substantial annual performance bonus, and the opportunity to earn equity for exceptional candidates.
Make your mark on a nascent industry - grow your personal network.
We strongly believe in professional development and are supportive in ensuring personal and professional growth.
Application Process
We have a straightforward candidacy process which we can move fast on if needed:
High quality applications will be guaranteed to receive a response, looking forward to seeing yours!