Jobs at Grasshopper

Trade and manage a proprietary APAC and China-focused book across index futures, ETFs, and underlying baskets. Calculate fair value, identify ADR, index arbitrage, and statistical arbitrage opportunities, execute trades, manage risk, and adjust models for corporate actions. Monitor macroeconomic, regulatory, and market-structure developments while collaborating with risk, operations, and technology teams. The role requires extensive index arbitrage, ETF market-making, or related trading experience and Python proficiency.

Build and own production data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, reference-data synchronization, and treasury reporting and reconciliation dashboards. Partner directly with traders, risk managers, financial controllers, and other nontechnical teams to translate business needs into trusted data products. Ensure data correctness through testing, improve dashboard usability, and help integrate AI into analytics workflows. The role uses Python, SQL, Prefect, dbt, BigQuery, Looker, and related cloud and data technologies.

Manage a profitable global gold arbitrage book across physical spot, futures, OTC, and regional markets. Optimize physical delivery, vaulting, swaps, financing, refining, and transportation mechanics while managing delta, basis, and foreign-exchange risk. Identify cross-market and cross-commodity mispricings, maintain relationships with bullion banks and liquidity providers, and collaborate with quantitative researchers and software engineers to automate pricing and execution. Requires extensive institutional precious-metals trading experience, a profitable gold-trading record, physical-market expertise, and business-level Mandarin.

Design, develop, optimize, and support high-performance electronic trading systems using C++ and Python. Responsibilities include market data processing, order routing, algorithmic trading frameworks, risk management tools, system reliability, troubleshooting, deployments, and continuous performance improvements in low-latency, high-throughput environments.

Manage real-time intraday risk for high-frequency trading, market-making, and automated strategies across global derivatives and equities markets. Oversee pre- and post-trade controls, exposure limits, emergency mitigation, governance, exchange compliance, and trade reconciliation. Collaborate with traders, developers, and operations teams to investigate anomalies and monitor system and market risks. Build quantitative risk monitoring tools, dashboards, and log-analysis pipelines using Python and SQL.

Support and improve high-performance network infrastructure across global colocation facilities for electronic trading operations. Responsibilities include configuring and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks, maintaining Arista, Cisco, and Juniper hardware, contributing to Python and Bash automation with Ansible and Puppet, implementing monitoring, documenting systems, and participating in on-call rotations to maintain 24/7 availability.

Manage and optimize high-frequency or intraday trading strategies, algorithms, and portfolios. Analyze market data, identify trading opportunities, monitor market conditions, and adjust strategies. Collaborate with trading, research, and technology teams to refine models while maintaining regulatory compliance and risk controls. Candidates should have a proven HFT or portfolio management track record, successful alpha strategies, deep financial-market knowledge, strong quantitative skills, and annual P&L exceeding USD 5 million.