Quant Algo Trading Specialist

Quant / Algo Trading Specialist

Company: Confidential (via CompanionVille)

Location: Singapore (relocation support is provided)

Company Description

• CompanionVille is a family-owned recruiting agency with over 30 years of combined international business experience. We specialize in connecting clients with high-performing candidates across various industries, including Fintech, IT, Sales, Marketing, Compliance, Finance, and HR. Our unique results-oriented approach means clients only pay upon the successful placement of a candidate, ensuring a risk-free and cost-effective solution.

About the Hiring Company

Our client is building a global market-making engine with a core focus on crypto exchange liquidity provision.

The business follows a hybrid market-making model and is scaling rapidly across multiple asset classes.

Current core trading focus

• 24/7 gold perpetual trading on crypto exchanges

Planned expansion:

• oil

• US equities

• real-world assets (RWA)

Role Overview

We are looking for a Quant / Algo Trading Specialist to contribute to the development of market-making and systematic trading strategies, with an immediate focus on:

👉 gold trading in a 24/7 crypto market environment

This role sits directly in the trading loop, working on:

• strategy development

• backtesting

• execution improvement

• P&L optimization

You will help shape the quantitative intelligence behind market making, rather than supporting it.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and refine algorithmic trading and market-making strategies

• Conduct backtesting using high-frequency / order book data

• Improve P&L performance and predictability

• Optimize execution logic (latency, slippage, fills)

• Analyze market microstructure and liquidity dynamics

• Work closely with traders and engineers to deploy strategies into production

• Continuously iterate based on live trading performance

Requirements

Core Experience

• Experience in quant research / algorithmic trading / systematic trading

• Background in:

• crypto trading

• HFT / prop trading

• market making or electronic trading

• Hands-on experience with strategy development and backtesting

• Understanding of execution, liquidity, and market microstructure

• Ability to think in terms of P&L drivers, not just models

Technical

• Strong Python (C++/Java is a plus)

• Experience working with tick-level / high-frequency data

• Familiarity with backtesting frameworks

Nice to Have

• Experience with market making or liquidity provision

• Exposure to crypto exchanges

• Mandarin (optional)

What We Are Looking For (Important)

We are specifically interested in candidates who:

• have built or improved trading strategies

• understand how models behave in live markets

• have worked close to execution and liquidity

We are not targeting:

• generic data scientists

• purely academic profiles

• software engineers without trading exposure

Why This Role

• Direct impact on a new global market-making business

• Work on 24/7 trading dynamics (crypto + gold perpetuals) — a non-traditional, high-feedback environment

• Opportunity to expand into multi-asset trading (commodities, equities, RWA)

• High ownership over strategy performance and P&L