Junior Trader
At a glance
Junior role at Wormhole Labs. Remote · full-time · $80,000–$100,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Place and manage trades on centralized and decentralized venues, including order books, AMM pools and concentrated liquidity positions
- Track live positions, inventory and P&L, then spot emerging risks and respond early
- Build desk tools for position tracking, reporting, hedging and reconciliation, and improve them over time
- Use market and execution data to investigate slippage, pool profitability and fill quality
- Study market structure and protocol mechanics, then share what you learn with the trading desk
What you bring
- You have up to three years of experience, or are a recent graduate with strong technical credentials
- You bring quantitative grounding in probability and statistics, and use data to test your views
- You can use Python for financial modeling or data analysis; related tools such as R, MATLAB, SQL or advanced Excel also count
- You have a genuine interest in crypto and DeFi, shown through personal engagement rather than necessarily through a job
Who this fits
This junior role suits someone moving from a quantitative, engineering, data or markets-adjacent path onto a trading desk. You’ll work alongside senior traders, take on responsibilities quickly and need to stay composed under pressure, communicate clearly, and escalate issues early. The role is remote and calls for comfort working autonomously across time zones.
From the employer
We're hiring a Junior Trader to join our trading team. You'll work directly with senior traders across strategies on centralized and decentralized venues, and take on your own responsibilities quickly.
We don't require prior DeFi experience. We do require that you're quantitative, technical, and able to move fast without breaking things.
What you'll do
Execute and manage trades across centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) venues — order books, AMM pools, and concentrated liquidity positions.
Monitor positions, inventory, and P&L in real time. Identify risks early and act on them.
Build and improve the tooling the desk runs on: position trackers, reporting dashboards, hedging workflows, reconciliation.
Analyze market and execution data to answer questions that matter — where slippage comes from, which pools are actually profitable, how our fill quality compares to the market.
Develop real depth in market structure and protocol mechanics (AMMs, PMMs, lending protocols) and bring it back to the desk.
What we're looking for
0–3 years of experience — recent graduates with strong technical credentials, or candidates from quant research, engineering, data, or markets-adjacent roles looking to move onto a trading desk.
Strong quantitative foundation: probability, statistics, and the instinct to reach for data before opinions.
Python preferred, ideally applied to financial modeling or data analysis (pandas, notebooks, working with messy datasets). Adjacent tooling — R, MATLAB, SQL, serious Excel modeling — counts.
Real interest in crypto and DeFi. Professional crypto experience isn't required; demonstrated engagement with the space is.
Sound judgment under pressure. Markets move at 3am and things break. We need someone who stays composed, thinks clearly, and escalates early.
Precise communicator
Self-directed and adaptable; comfortable operating with autonomy across time zones in a remote-first environment.
Nice to have
Personal trading, market-making, or on-chain activity of any kind — a portfolio, a bot, an arbitrage script, a Dune dashboard.
Familiarity with Solana tooling (Jupiter, Orca, Drift) or EVM DeFi (Uniswap, Aave, Curve).
Exposure to algorithmic or systematic trading.
Machine learning or large-scale data analysis (regression, tree-based methods, classification).
Internships or prior work at a trading firm, market maker, exchange, or protocol.
What you'll get
Direct mentorship from traders running real capital — you'll learn by working alongside them, not from a curriculum.
Responsibility as fast as you can earn it, with clear feedback on where you stand.
Exposure across the full stack of a trading operation: execution, risk, tooling, counterparty relationships, and market structure.
A front-row seat as equities, commodities, and crypto converge on-chain.
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