Quant Trader, Market Making

Atlanta, GA, United States; Austin, TX, United States; Baltimore, MD, United States; Charlotte, NC, United States; Chicago, IL, United States; Denver, CO, United States; Miami, FL, United States; New York, NY, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States; Seattle, WA, United States. Posted 3 months ago

The role

The Quant Trader will make markets and manage risk across sports and financial prediction contracts. This person will design pricing models, partner with engineering to productionize models, and implement trading strategies to maximize volume and revenue.

What you will do

Make markets and manage risk across sports and financial prediction contracts
Design and develop pricing models to generate real-time fair values for event-driven outcomes
Partner with product and engineering to productionize models for live trading
Monitor, validate, and iterate on production models
Identify and execute market-take opportunities arising from model insights and prediction-market dynamics
Design and implement trading strategies to maximise volume and revenue while scaling automated decision-making
Partner with product, quant, engineering, and compliance teams to launch new markets and contract types

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or quantitative discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics)
2+ years of professional trading or modeling experience in fast moving competitive environments such as market making, options/derivatives, prop trading, or sports betting trading
Experience integrating data and models into production
Strong grasp of trading concepts, with the ability to think critically about uncertainty and model assumptions
Python proficiency, including strong experience with data manipulation, statistical analysis, and automation
Passion for and strong understanding of sports and event-driven markets
Flexibility with working hours to align with global sporting schedules

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.