Important : Please only apply if you are able to work on-site at our Zurich office every working day. This is a fully office-based role with no option for remote work.
About G-20
G-20 Group is a cross-asset trading firm headquartered in Switzerland, trading delta-one and derivatives markets globally. We combine startup agility with institutional-grade experience in proprietary trading, technology, and quantitative finance.
Role Overview
We are seeking an AlgorithmicQuantTraderto develop and optimize systematic market-making strategies across digital assets and, where applicable, traditional markets. The role is focused on building high-performance algorithms that continuously price liquidity, manage inventory and risk, and capture spread and microstructure opportunities across fragmented electronic markets.
The successful candidate will have hands‑on experience developing production market-making algorithms and a strong understanding of order books, execution, adverse selection, inventory management, and high-frequency market dynamics.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize systematic market‑making and liquidity‑provision algorithms across spot, futures, perpetuals, and other derivatives.
- Develop dynamic quoting models incorporating spread optimization, inventory skew, volatility, liquidity, order‑book dynamics, and adverse‑selection risk.
- Research market microstructure and identify opportunities to improve fill quality, capture spreads, and reduce execution costs and information leakage.
- Build quantitative models for fair‑value estimation, short‑term price prediction, order placement, and inventory/risk management.
- Backtest and simulate strategies using high‑frequency tick and order‑book data.
- Analyze live strategy performance, including P&L attribution, fill rates, queue position, mark‑outs, inventory, and execution quality.
- Work closely with traders and engineers to deploy research into low‑latency production trading systems.
- Optimize strategies across multiple exchanges and liquidity venues, accounting for differences in fees, rebates, latency, market structure, and liquidity.
- Develop automated risk controls and monitoring for market‑making strategies.
- Strong quantitative degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.High-ranking universities preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrable professional experience developing algorithmic market‑making strategies in crypto, equities, futures, FX, or other highly electronic markets.
- Deep understanding of market microstructure, limit‑order books, execution algorithms, inventory management, and adverse selection.
- Strong programming skills, preferably Python plus C++ and/or Rust.
- Experience working with tick‑level and order‑book data and building quantitative research/backtesting frameworks.
- Understanding of statistical modelling, optimization, time‑series analysis, and quantitative risk management.
- Experience taking strategies from research through backtesting and into live production.
- Strong commercial mindset with the ability to connect quantitative research directly to trading performance.
Preferred / Desirable Experience
- Direct experience in crypto market making or liquidity provision across major centralized and/or decentralized venues.
- Experience with high‑frequency or low‑latency trading systems.
- Knowledge of cross‑venue pricing, arbitrage, hedging, and inventory optimization.
- Experience market making derivatives, particularly perpetual futures and options.
- Proven track record of improving market‑making strategy profitability, scalability, or execution quality.
Right towork
This role is based in our Zurich office.Only candidates who reside in and whopossessthe pre-existing right to work in Switzerland without requiring company sponsorship needapply.
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Algorithmic Quant Trader (Zurich) in Zürich Arbeitgeber: G-20 Group
Die G-20 Group in Zürich bietet eine herausragende Arbeitsumgebung für Compliance-Experten, die Wert auf Eigenverantwortung und enge Zusammenarbeit mit der Unternehmensführung legen. Unsere Unternehmenskultur fördert kontinuierliches Lernen und persönliche Entwicklung, während wir gleichzeitig ein flexibles Arbeitsmodell anbieten, das sowohl Vollzeit- als auch Teilzeitoptionen umfasst. Mit der Möglichkeit, direkt mit Schweizer Regulierungsbehörden zu interagieren, bietet diese Position nicht nur spannende Herausforderungen, sondern auch die Chance, einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Compliance-Strategien des Unternehmens auszuüben.
