Drweng6mo ago

Proprietary Risk Trader

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Overview

DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world.

Requirements Summary

5+ years as a trader in ETFs or index futures (prop/MM/sell-side delta-one). Asia markets experience (HK/SG/JP/KR/TW at minimum). Onshore China (QFI/Stock Connect, futures) is a strong plus.

Technical Tools

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Responsibilities

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→Build, execute, and risk manage discretionary & semi-systematic strategies end-to-end across ETFs and index futures.
→Run ETF market-making and index arbitrage (cash–futures/TRS basis, baskets), and contribute to central risk book decisions to internalize flow and optimize inventory/hedging.
→Analyse flows & themes (macro, microstructure, corporate actions) to generate tradeable hypotheses and P&L.
→Partner with developers/quants to improve models, data pipelines, and execution tooling (Python-first culture).
→Drive execution quality: route selection, algo parameters, participation, and post-trade attribution.
→Contribute to desk risk positioning and runbooks; uphold controls (price bands, notional caps, borrow/recall awareness.

Requirements

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5+ years as a trader in ETFs or index futures (prop/MM/sell-side delta-one).
Asia markets experience (HK/SG/JP/KR/TW at minimum). Onshore China (QFI/Stock Connect, futures) is a strong plus.
Hands-on exposure to ETF MM, index arbitrage, and/or central risk book workflows.
Strong Python (pandas/numpy; quick prototyping/backtests; comfort with data hygiene & attribution).
Ability to translate macro/news into positioning; understanding of microstructure (auctions, halts/LULD, tick/lot, fee tiers) and SBL/borrow dynamics.
Profitable track record in equities/futures (high-level P&L drivers and risk used to achieve it).
Nice to have
Experience with internalization/crossing frameworks; broker algo tuning (VWAP/TWAP/POV).
Corporate-actions & index events playbooks; AP/issuer interactions for Cr/Rd.
Mandarin/Cantonese language skills (for brokers/issuers/reg materials) are a plus.