Who We Are:
At Galaxy we are building products and services to help the world invest in economic progress. We believe crypto and blockchain innovations will permeate and improve all aspects of our global economy. Our vision is a society where value and ownership flow as freely as information. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals access and navigate the crypto economy. As one of the most well-capitalized and trusted companies in the industry, we provide platform solutions custom-made for a digitally native ecosystem across three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Our offerings include, amongst others, trading, lending, strategic advisory services, institutional-grade investment solutions across passive, active and venture strategies, proprietary bitcoin mining and hosting services, network validator services, and the development of enterprise custodial technology. Galaxy’s CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz leads a team of crypto enthusiasts, and institutional veterans focused on the future of finance and Web3. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with global across North America, Europe and Asia.
Additional information about the Company’s businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com.
What We Value:
We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.
- Seek Excellence.
- Be Selective To Be Effective.
- Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
- Disagree Transparently.
- Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
- Build Dream Teams.
Who You Are:
As a Quantitative Products Trader, your responsibilities will include protocol market making, exchange market making, franchise market making strategies and proprietary trading support. Your role will primarily involve market making for client tokens, where you will ensure both sides of the order book are actively maintained within the specified key performance indicators (KPIs). Additionally, you will be part of a team that is responsible for proprietary trading strategies, where your expertise in quantitative analysis, risk management, operations and algorithmic trading will be relied upon.
What You’ll Do:
- Improve existing and develop new automatic trading, hedging and risk holding strategies, and trade signals in cryptocurrency markets
- Develop, maintain, and improve the data environment to help research and trading, including simulation framework, trade signal evaluation tools etc.
- Analyze proprietary trade data and client flow data, build processes to optimize flow and PnL capture for client market making business
- Build and improve trading system components to monetize research findings and optimize PnL
- Interact with production systems and manage trading and risk
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years of FX and/or crypto client facing market making front office experience, 5+ years technical experience
- Degree in a technical or quantitative discipline, advanced degree preferred
- Strong analytical skills and experience with analyzing large data sets and machine learning
- Experience with FX and/or crypto market making and market micro-structure
- Proficiency with coding in Python is required
- Experience with Java is strongly preferred
- Understanding of code design and production best practices is a big plus
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary, bonus, and equity compensation
- Competitive paid time off
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
- Free virtual coaching sessions through Ginger
- Free daily snacks in-office
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
*Benefits may vary depending on location.
Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital or partnership or caregiver status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].
