Job Position

Options Trader

Job Description

Trade Air is a privately funded investment manager and trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets research. We are seeking a Software Engineer for our team in GIFT City. Our Core Technology team has some of the best programmers in India working on cutting-edge technologies to build a super-fast and robust trading infrastructure handling millions of dollars worth of trading transactions every day.

Principal Responsibilities

Strategic Development

  • Design, develop, and optimise robust options market-making strategies across multiple asset classes, emphasising accurate pricing models, dynamic hedging frameworks, and comprehensive risk management protocols.

  • Employ advanced quantitative methods to ensure that strategies are adaptive to changing market conditions and maintain consistent profitability across varying volatility regimes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with engineering teams to seamlessly convert trading concepts and theoretical models into highly efficient, production-ready algorithmic systems.

  • Drive the end-to-end development cycle — from strategy prototyping to live deployment — ensuring technical precision, performance scalability, and system resilience.

Market Research and Alpha Generation

  • Continuously observe, evaluate, and interpret evolving market structures and microstructure dynamics to identify emerging opportunities and inefficiencies.

  • Generate new alpha ideas through data-driven research, rigorous backtesting, and real-time strategy iteration, with a strong focus on improving execution quality and minimising exposure to adverse selection.

Performance Enhancement and Risk Control

  • Regularly monitor live trading performance metrics, systematically refine models based on empirical feedback, and implement safeguards to maintain tight control over inventory, capital usage, and exposure to tail risks.

  • Proactively contribute to the evolution of the market-making framework by innovating on signal generation, quoting mechanisms, and risk-adjusted optimisation techniques.

Job Requirements

  • A degree in Computer Science from the top IIT's

  • Skilled with C/C++ and object-oriented programming

  • Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures

  • Excellent problem-solving skills

  • Strong communication skills

  • Knowledge of Linux systems

Gandhinagar, India

Full-time

Remote

Pay

Test

Experience

3 years

Shape the Future of Global Finance

Please reach out to us at careers@tradeair.in or submit your profile on the link here if you believe you are a good fit and are not able to find relevant job opening.

We specialize in unique financial services for NRIs, OCIs, and international investors to secure and efficient investing and trading across GIFT City and global markets.

© 2025 TradeAir. All rights reserved.

CIN:

U65990GJ2016PTC094880

GSTN:

24AAICP9066C1ZD

IFSCA Broker-Dealer Regn. No:

INZ0001808635

IFSCA FME Regn. No:

IFSCA/FME/II/2022-23/059

NSE IFSC Trading Member ID:

10037

India INX Trading/Clearing Member ID:

5042

NSE IFSC Clearing Member ID:

M50011

We specialize in unique financial services for NRIs, OCIs, and international investors to secure and efficient investing and trading across GIFT City and global markets.

© 2025 TradeAir. All rights reserved.

CIN:

U65990GJ2016PTC094880

GSTN:

24AAICP9066C1ZD

IFSCA Broker-Dealer Regn. No:

INZ0001808635

IFSCA FME Regn. No:

IFSCA/FME/II/2022-23/059

NSE IFSC Trading Member ID:

10037

India INX Trading/Clearing Member ID:

5042

NSE IFSC Clearing Member ID:

M50011

We specialize in unique financial services for NRIs, OCIs, and international investors to secure and efficient investing and trading across GIFT City and global markets.

© 2025 TradeAir. All rights reserved.

CIN:

U65990GJ2016PTC094880

GSTN:

24AAICP9066C1ZD

IFSCA Broker-Dealer Regn. No:

INZ0001808635

IFSCA FME Regn. No:

IFSCA/FME/II/2022-23/059

NSE IFSC Trading Member ID:

10037

India INX Trading/Clearing Member ID:

5042

NSE IFSC Clearing Member ID:

M50011