About the company
Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. Weāre looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn. We are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in New York City, Sioux Falls, Porto, Lisbon, and Singapore. For our colleagues not located near our beautiful offices, we encourage and sponsor quarterly in-person collaboration days to work together and further deepen our Village.
Job Summary
Technical Skills:
šAbility to expertly handle complex trades with a mindset of continuous optimization. Every basis point of execution is significant and should be measured and understood, with the goal of increasing the trading deskās revenue while abiding by risk management guardrails. šDeep crypto market microstructure mathematical expertise, including cross-market basis opportunities, awareness/avoidance of predatory algorithms, derivatives hedging, beta hedging, and having a good understanding of away positioning and market drivers etc. šDemonstrates expert knowledge of both electronic and voice trading, influencing technology improvements inspired by the more mature Traditional Finance market structure. šStrong client-facing abilities, instilling confidence through excellent white glove service; influencing clients to increase Anchorageās share of wallet. šProficient Python coding ability, comfortable progressing existing code and creating new code to advance trading projects. Complexity and Impact of Work: šStand up the initial principal trading exposure management infrastructure and processes. This includes optimizing the trading deskās quantitative pricing models, with expected return calculated using factors such as: volatility assumptions, market impact, hedging method, client tiering, and error handling. Longer-term, guide quants and engineers in the migration of this logic into a lower-latency streaming product from which clients can electronically execute. šLead efforts to increasingly automate hedge execution, so that traders can focus on only the most complicated trades, project work, or client engagement. šAssist the risk management team in designing controls to govern the principal trading deskās aggregate market exposure, including data buildout and guardrail establishment. This effort will be supported by the risk management team, quantitative analysts, and engineers. A successful program will net correlated risks to keep our pricing competitive, while alerting action to avoid breaching risk thresholds.
