Head of Trading Risk Engine, Crypto Perpetuals

🔥 20 hours ago

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

₿ Crypto

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Emerald Zebra Talent Solutions

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Emerald Zebra Talent Solutions is a leading recruitment agency in Cyprus that specializes in connecting employers with top talent in the FinTech, Tech, Finance, and iGaming sectors. They provide a range of recruitment services, including salary benchmarking, strategic hiring, and recruitment process outsourcing, while also offering support for job seekers through CV writing and interview coaching. With a commitment to excellence, Emerald Zebra aims to guide candidates in their job search and assist employers in finding the ideal candidates for their team.

📋 Description

• Build and run the trading risk engine for a crypto-perpetuals prop firm • Own trading-book risk appetite and exposure by instrument, strategy, cohort and correlated group • Define funded-account rules, review payouts, forecast liabilities and manage reserves • Classify profitable, toxic, fraudulent, coordinated and correlated traders • Decide whether to simulate, internalise, match or hedge exposure • Manage venue, liquidity-provider and market-maker relationships • Build A/B/hybrid routing and determine when exposure remains internal or is hedged • Measure shadow P&L after fees, funding, spreads, slippage and execution costs • Set leverage, margin, instruments, spreads, mark-ups and trading conditions • Monitor execution, fills, rejections, pricing anomalies, market gaps and incidents • Detect toxic flow, latency arbitrage, copy/coordinated trading, multi-account abuse and payout exploitation • Lead responses to volatility, failures and concentrated exposure • Partner with Product and Engineering to build systems and evaluate product changes • Define pricing, limits, monitoring, routing, hedging and staged rollout approaches • Build the future risk/dealing team

🎯 Requirements

• Five-plus years in trading risk, dealing or similar preferred • Experience in funded trading, retail FX/CFDs, crypto derivatives, prop trading or market-making • Knowledge of perpetuals, leverage, margin, liquidation, funding, microstructure, A/B-book management, hedging, routing and liquidity providers • Ability to analyse behaviour and abuse with SQL/Python • Ability to translate risk logic into product and engineering requirements • Commercial, inventive and decisive under volatility • Ability to protect legitimate payouts and profitability without blanket restrictions • Live-exposure ownership and execution experience • Ability to work with data, engineers and imperfect systems • Willingness to make time-sensitive book decisions