
Digital Assets Options Trader
Key Skills
Job Description
Flow Traders is looking for a Digital Assets Options Trader to join our global Digital Assets Trading team in Amsterdam. We are seeking candidates with ideally experience in digital asset options, volatility trading, market making, or related derivatives strategies. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of crypto options market structure and is motivated to help build and develop our digital assets options trading capabilities.
You will be part of a highly collaborative global team, working closely with traders, quants, and engineers to develop and scale options trading strategies across centralized and decentralized markets.
What you will do
- Develop and optimize digital asset options strategies across OTC and listed markets, including CeFi and/or DeFi venues
- Manage OTC trading flow, including RFQs, pricing, execution, and counterparty interaction
- Manage day-to-day activities of an options desk.
- Help build and improve the desk’s trading processes, pricing, monitoring, and risk-management framework
- Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to improve execution and trading infrastructure
- Generate and validate trading ideas using data and real-time feedback
What you will need to succeed
- Experience in options trading at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, options desk, or crypto-native trading desk
- Experience with crypto or digital asset options preferred, across OTC and/or listed markets
- Working knowledge of options theory, trading basics and risk management
- Experience with OTC options, including RFQ handling, quoting, pricing, and counterparty interaction
- Strong understanding of options pricing, volatility, execution, liquidity, and market dynamics
- A proactive and collaborative approach, with an interest in helping build a growing options trading function
- Comfortable working flexible hours
- Strong quantitative and programming skills, including experience with tools such as Python and SQL
What we offer
At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hard-working, high-performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to the latest technology and a collaborative, non-hierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close-knit, small-company feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here and stay here.
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Year’s Event
- Global rotations across our offices worldwide
- And more
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions.
Core Responsibilities
Develop and optimize digital asset options strategies across OTC and listed markets, manage OTC flow and day-to-day desk activities, and improve trading processes, pricing, monitoring, and risk management. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to enhance execution and infrastructure, while generating and validating trading ideas using data and real-time feedback.
Requirements
Candidates should have options trading experience at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, options desk, or crypto-native trading desk; digital asset options experience is preferred. They should understand options theory, pricing, volatility, execution, liquidity, and risk management, have experience handling OTC RFQs and counterparties, and bring strong quantitative and programming skills, including Python and SQL.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Discretionary Profit Share
- Flow Academy
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Daily Catered Lunch
- Coffee and Snacks
- In-House Bar and Lounge
- Company Boat
- In-House Gym
- Nutritionist or Personal Trainer Sessions
- Bi-Weekly Massages
- Annual Company Trip
- Company Events
- Global Office Rotations
About Flow Traders
Industry: Financial Services
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Founded in 2004, Flow Traders is a leading trading firm operating globally. Specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), Flow Traders trades a broad range of asset classes, including digital assets and fixed income both on- and off-exchange. Our headquarters are in Amsterdam and we have offices in 10 locations worldwide, with more than 600 employees. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.