Platinum & Partners is mandated by a proprietary trading firm that operates at the frontier of decentralised finance and traditional market structure. The firm is a market maker and liquidity provider across on-chain protocols and centralised exchanges globally, building every strategy and system in-house.
They are now hiring a senior institutional trader to lead execution and strategy development across their Real World Asset (RWA) and derivatives desks in Singapore. The compensation reflects the seniority and scarcity of this profile: up to SGD $1.3M total package, comprising a strong base, performance bonus and full benefits.
This is not a traditional ETF trading role. The firm wants your institutional toolkit — the ability to price complex baskets, manage fragmented order books, and navigate multi-variable FX risk — applied to the fastest-growing corner of on-chain finance. If you know how to trade illiquid EM underlyings and manage delta one risk at scale, you will find an entirely new market to dominate here.
THE ROLE
- Design, deploy and run proprietary trading, arbitrage and market-making strategies across tokenised RWAs, delta one products and crypto futures
- Actively trade and manage positions in futures and delta one products — optimising for basis risk, funding rates and roll efficiency
- Manage order execution and arbitrage strategies across fragmented CeFi and DeFi venues
- Dynamically manage multi-variable risk exposures: underlying asset volatility, complex FX risk (particularly EM-linked underlyings), basis risk and protocol depegging events
- Partner with quantitative researchers to sharpen pricing models for basket assets
- Collaborate with engineers to optimise on-chain execution and capital efficiency
- Serve as the internal expert on creation/redemption-style market mechanics for tokenised asset structures
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of institutional trading experience on an Emerging Markets ETF, Delta One or structured basket trading desk
- Deep technical expertise in pricing complex baskets, managing cross-currency and FX risk, and navigating illiquid, highly fragmented order books
- Strong working knowledge of delta one products, linear derivatives and futures mechanics — basis trading, curve management, hedging
- Python, SQL or R for data analysis, strategy prototyping and post-trade performance review
- Comfortable operating in a 24/7 market environment — digital asset markets don't close
- Analytical rigour of an institutional trader combined with the entrepreneurial mindset to build in an emerging asset class
- Crypto or DeFi experience is a plus but explicitly not required — the firm will back the right institutional trader into this market
WHY THIS ROLE
- Up to SGD $1.3M total package — top-of-market for APAC trading roles
- A genuinely novel mandate: institutional trading expertise applied to on-chain RWA and crypto derivatives — a market most institutional desks haven't touched yet
- Singapore base — Asia's leading hub for digital asset and systematic trading
- Direct ownership of strategy and execution — not implementing someone else's book
- Small, collaborative, high-calibre team — no politics, no hierarchy
- Working at the intersection of traditional markets and decentralised finance at exactly the right moment in the cycle
ABOUT PLATINUM & PARTNERS
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