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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in executing and managing crypto trades across multiple exchanges, with a strong understanding of order book mechanics, liquidity management, and trading strategies. Capable of analyzing market conditions and making informed decisions to optimize execution quality and P&L.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Crypto Trading ExperienceOrder Book MechanicsLiquidity ManagementTrading AutomationP&L Accountability
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Hard Skills
Order TypesSlippageMarket ImpactInventory RiskTrading JudgmentExecution QualityCross-Exchange OpportunitiesPricing ChangesTrade Records MaintenancePerformance Baselines
Soft Skills
Calm Decision-MakingClear CommunicationProblem Escalation
Tools & Technologies
Exchange APIsSQLPythonSpreadsheets
Industry Keywords
OTC DeskMarket MakerNGN/Stablecoin MarketsLiquidity ProvidersTrading InventoryExecution CostsFundingSettlementReconciliationMarket Abuse
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPythonSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Monitor spreads, order book depth, fill rates, time to fill, and slippage across core pairs, especially USDT/NGN
- Investigate stale quotes, one-sided liquidity, unusual price moves, and underlying causes
- Compare pricing with executable prices on relevant markets
- Source and execute trades through approved exchanges and counterparties
- Select appropriate venues, order types, and trade sizes
- Support liquidity and execution for the OTC Desk and trading products
- Assess cross-exchange and arbitrage opportunities after fees, slippage, funding, and transfer costs
- Review quotes and spreads against market conditions, inventory, and execution costs
- Recommend pricing changes balancing competitiveness and sustainable margins
- Work with market makers and liquidity providers on two-sided quotes, depth, and availability
- Track trading inventory, open orders, unsettled trades, and counterparty exposure
- Execute approved hedges and rebalancing trades within agreed limits
- Work with Treasury Ops and Finance on funding, settlement, reconciliation, and realised/unrealised P&L
- Escalate limit breaches, pricing errors, and suspected market abuse
- Maintain trade records and follow approval controls
- Report market health, execution costs, P&L, and emerging risks to the CFO
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on price checks, liquidity alerts, and trading tools
- Document trading decisions, incident responses, and handovers
- Establish performance baselines and deliver measurable improvements in execution quality, net spread, or liquidity availability
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience executing and managing crypto trades across multiple exchanges, ideally at an exchange, market maker, or OTC desk
- Accountability for trading positions, execution quality, and P&L
- Practical understanding of order book mechanics, maker and taker fees, order types, slippage, market impact, and inventory risk
- Familiarity with NGN/stablecoin markets, local liquidity, FX movements, and settlement constraints
- Experience working with liquidity providers and counterparties, checking quotes, and following trades through settlement
- Ability to use spreadsheets and trading data to calculate costs, check P&L, and investigate execution problems
- Calm decision-making during market movements, clear communication, and early escalation of problems
- Good trading judgment
- Experience with exchange APIs, SQL, Python, or trading automation is a plus
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary based on skills and experience
- Annual merit-based reviews
- Annual performance reviews and clear promotion cycles
- Recognition for great work, including shoutouts to milestone rewards
- Personal development fund for courses, books, and conferences
- Study leave
- Fully remote forever
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited paid time off
- Nigerian national holidays
- Parental, sick, compassionate, and life event leave
- Quarterly remote team hangouts
- Annual offsite
- Interest-based communities (SIGs)
- Regular engagement surveys
- Health and life coverage in select locations