Systematic Execution Trader
RemoteSingapore, Singapore or Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Job Summary
Oversee live systematic trading across assigned markets, sessions, and strategies while maintaining accurate records of orders, positions, exposures, and PnL. Act as a gatekeeper for production trading by verifying readiness, monitoring alerts, and intervening when systems, risk, or liquidity conditions require pause or modification. Execute orders requiring human judgment and enforce pre-trade and post-trade controls in partnership with risk and compliance teams. Investigate abnormal behavior including stale data, rejects, and control breaches, then coordinate incident response across research, engineering, and operations to ensure resolution. Analyze execution quality metrics to identify liquidity shifts and recommend improvements to trading controls and dashboards. Monitor macroeconomic developments and geopolitical events to develop trade hypotheses and collaborate with researchers on systematic evaluations.
Required Qualifications
- Live trading or execution experience in traditional financial markets
- Judgement to make timely, risk-aware decisions under pressure
- A strong technical or quantitative foundation
- Ability to reason precisely about complex trading workflows and system behaviour
- Practical familiarity with automated trading systems and the components around them
- Experience monitoring live order flow and responding to alerts
- Experience responding to limit breaches
- Experience responding to operational failures
- Experience responding to abnormal market conditions
- Knowledge of when and how to intervene or escalate
- Deep practical knowledge of market structure
- Knowledge of trading rules
- Knowledge of restrictions
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements
- Knowledge in at least one core traditional market
- Strong understanding of execution mechanics
- Knowledge of order types
- Knowledge of liquidity
- Knowledge of spread
- Knowledge of depth
- Knowledge of volatility
- Knowledge of market impact
- Knowledge of exchange sessions
- Knowledge of auctions
- Knowledge of halts
- Knowledge of rejects
- Knowledge of instrument-specific risks
- A disciplined control mindset
- Genuine interest in markets beyond immediate execution
- Ability to analyse news
- Ability to analyse macroeconomic developments
- Ability to analyse geopolitical developments
- Ability to analyse cross-asset price action
- Clear communication skills
- Collaborative working skills
- Practical working proficiency in Mandarin
- Practical working proficiency in English
- Ability to hold basic work conversations
- Ability to coordinate trading or operational matters
- Willingness and ability to cover the market hours agreed for the role
- Willingness and ability to cover the location
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a quantitative macro desk
- Experience in a systematic equities/CTA desk
- In-depth analytical/trading experience
- Trading thesis formulated and executed live
- Exposure to macro and cross-asset markets
- Exposure to commodities
- Exposure to futures
- Exposure to options
- Exposure to rates
- Exposure to FX
- Exposure to equity indices
- Working knowledge of Python
- Working knowledge of Linux
- Working knowledge of SQL
- Experience designing automated alerts
- Experience testing automated alerts
- Experience improving automated alerts
- Experience designing pre-trade controls
- Experience testing pre-trade controls
- Experience improving pre-trade controls
- Experience designing post-trade controls
- Experience testing post-trade controls
- Experience improving post-trade controls
- Experience designing kill switches
- Experience testing kill switches
- Experience improving kill switches
- Experience designing monitoring tools
- Experience testing monitoring tools
- Experience improving monitoring tools
- Experience designing operational risk processes
- Experience testing operational risk processes
- Experience improving operational risk processes
- Experience with transaction cost analysis
- Experience with execution research
- Experience with broker evaluation
- Experience with venue evaluation
- Experience with systematic improvement of execution logic
- Experience managing live trading incidents
- Experience contributing to root-cause analysis
- Experience contributing to control remediation
- Experience contributing to procedural improvement
- Breadth across multiple market structures
- Breadth across multiple jurisdictions
- Breadth across multiple asset classes
- Breadth across multiple time zones
- Breadth across multiple exchange relationships
- Breadth across multiple broker relationships
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