Junior Trader

The role

You will work with senior traders across strategies on centralized and decentralized venues. You will execute trades, monitor positions, and build desk tooling.

What you will do

• Execute and manage trades across centralized and decentralized venues
• Monitor positions, inventory, and P&L in real time
• Identify risks early and act on them
• Build and improve desk tooling including position trackers and reporting dashboards
• Analyze market and execution data
• Develop depth in market structure and protocol mechanics

Required qualifications

• 0–3 years of experience
• Strong quantitative foundation in probability and statistics
• Real interest in crypto and DeFi
• Sound judgment under pressure
• Precise communicator
• Self-directed and adaptable

Nice to have

• Python preferred, ideally applied to financial modeling or data analysis
• Personal trading, market-making, or on-chain activity
• 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
• Internships or prior work at a trading firm, market maker, exchange, or protocol

Benefits

• Direct mentorship from traders running real capital
• Responsibility as fast as you can earn it
• Clear feedback on where you stand
• Exposure across the full stack of a trading operation

About the company

wormholelabs is hiring a Junior Trader to join their trading team.