Systematic ETF Trader

Role Overview

Our client, a financial services firm specializing in market making is seeking a Systematic ETF Trader to take ownership of and enhance its fully operational, high-performance trading platform, which focuses on ETF market making, arbitrage and cross-asset hedging. The role also offers the opportunity to develop and scale strategies across equity ETFs, futures and fixed income instruments. This individual will play a direct role in driving daily P&L, refining trading algorithms and improving infrastructure, with a clear path to leadership as the platform grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Trade equity ETFs, futures and related derivatives within a systematic market-making framework, managing execution and risk daily
• Design, own and optimize market-making, arbitrage and hedging strategies, including spread setting, order placement, inventory management and intraday risk controls
• Develop and refine automated trading models, signal generation and risk algorithms, taking them from research through production
• Manage the ETF creation and redemption process, incorporating primary and secondary market dynamics into pricing and risk models
• Analyze NAV dislocations, basket composition changes and ETF/NAV basis relationships to inform trading decisions
• Work with ETF issuers and authorized participants on operational and structural matters that affect trading strategies
• Improve execution quality by applying market microstructure insights, managing latency and following venue-specific rules
• Partner with the firm’s engineering team to enhance low-latency infrastructure, integrate new indicators and risk controls, and maintain strong system performance
• Model cross-asset relationships, including interest rates, sector exposures and index mechanics, to expand the platform’s capabilities
• Implement real-time risk management tools, such as position limits, P&L monitoring and regulatory compliance checks
• Take full ownership of the firm’s existing systematic trading systems, including new signal integration, backtesting frameworks and production workflows

Experience

• 3-to-7 years
• Holding or open to obtaining Series 7 and Series 57 licenses