Teams 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.