Join Sixtant: trading, market structure, and strategy implementation

As the trading, market structure, and strategy implementation expert on the engineering and trading team, you will identify nuts and bolts, market structure based trades, write code to carry them out, and monitor execution.

Working at Sixtant

Sixtant is an entrepreneurial, no red tape, minimal bureaucracy workplace. You work on object-level problems and contribute directly to p&l.

Every member of the engineering and trading team works at all levels of the trading stack, but brings a particular skill set to help the team in some core area. Everyone has the opportunity to work on a variety of improvements to the trading platform and supporting infrastructure — including the implementation of order execution and trading logic — and see their efforts directly impact trading. Bonuses are uncapped and in proportion to the firm’s trading performance.

Since 2020, Sixtant has been a fully remote company and now has team members across the Americas and Europe.

What you will work on

Crypto Markets Are Dynamic, And We Act Quickly To Take Advantage Of New Opportunities. It Is Often Not Possible To Know In Advance What That Will Entail, But You Will Likely Find Yourself Working On Some Of The Following Projects

• Monitoring the behavior of current trading strategies and improving trade execution.
• Tooling to monitor / extrapolate the activity of other market participants, especially as related to the trades you are executing.
• Building and executing new trading strategies, figuring out relevant metrics for monitoring them, and tweaking the strategies / trading system to make this data available.
• Managing open positions and hedges for running strategies.

This position involves spending a significant portion amount of time both writing code and interacting with market structure and trade execution. You should be equally comfortable taking ownership of long-term projects as quickly shipping one-off solutions, and expect to do both.

Requirements

• Trading and market structure experience; you have a deep understanding of trading and exchanges, limit order books, order types (limit, market, fok, ioc, etc).
• You understand delta-neutral market making and the high level dynamics of order flow internalization.
• You can e.g. explain how a calendar spread trade or a cash and carry works.
• You have designed, executed, and monitored trading strategies of this variety with real money (not paper trading) on an exchange.
• Experience with options trading and delta hedging is a plus, but not required.
• Software development experience (preferably in Clojure, Rust, C++, F#, Go, OCaml, Erlang, or Java); you have worked on production systems at a non-trivial level and made design decisions around message passing, state sharing, and performance.
  

Experience With Crypto Is a Plus, But Not Required.

Write to us

If you think you might be a good fit, please write a quick, direct message to [email protected] explaining how you developed a strong trading, market structure, and strategy implementation skill set and why you’re interested in this role at Sixtant.

If you’d like, feel free to attach your GitHub / resume. We’re also happy to consider experience from open source, conference talks, personal projects, etc.

About Sixtant

Sixtant is a proprietary trading and market making firm that takes a scientific, high-frequency approach to crypto trading. We focus on market neutral trading strategies based on understanding market structure and correcting inefficiencies. As market makers, we also leverage these capabilities to maintain orderly, liquid markets, even for difficult to price assets.

Sixtant is a small team of exceptional, entrepreneurial collaborators who consistently achieve outsized impact. Sixtant manages tens of millions in assets and trades tens of billions in annual volume across centralized limit order books and DeFi. We are designated market makers for select clients across a myriad of instruments.

Our values are craftsmanship, collaboration, integrity, passion, and constant learning.