Jobs at Mako Trading

Manage and optimize a proprietary trading book focused on Indian index and stock options. Responsibilities include real-time risk management, developing trading ideas, analyzing performance, conducting quantitative research, building hypotheses, designing experiments, and backtesting strategies. The role requires options market expertise, algorithmic trading familiarity, strong quantitative skills, and proficiency in Python or C++.

Design, build, and operate Mako’s on-premises Linux VM and Kubernetes platform. Responsibilities include KVM/libvirt infrastructure, distributed storage, networking, cluster lifecycle, GitOps, security hardening, observability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and incident response. The role partners with application, network, and facilities teams to improve developer experience and platform reliability while participating in on-call support.

Join Mako’s graduate engineering programme to develop and maintain a low-latency, real-time derivatives trading system written in C++ on Linux. Responsibilities include implementing algorithms, pricing models, interfaces, and trading connectivity while collaborating with traders and engineers in Agile teams. Graduates receive structured training, mentorship, and practical experience with automated trading strategies, software development, testing, networking, and performance optimization.

Participate in Mako’s graduate trading programme, rotating across options and derivatives desks while learning market making, options theory, risk processes, and trading strategies. Graduate Traders make rapid, logical decisions under pressure, complete analytical projects, collaborate with senior traders, and contribute innovative ideas. The programme includes structured training, mock trading sessions, product-area rotations, and progressive exposure to real-time financial markets.

Owns trade surveillance and broader compliance processes for a global options market maker. Responsibilities include reviewing alerts, conducting quality assurance, investigating escalations, recommending STOR filings, maintaining market-abuse controls, managing personal account dealing and KYC processes, executing compliance monitoring, supporting training and regulatory reporting, and improving compliance through automation, technology, and process initiatives.

Work with senior traders to produce actionable equity research: build sector coverage, run fundamental analysis and scenario models, maintain financial models and datasets, monitor news and macro events, and translate structural trends into tradeable equity views.

Work with senior traders and analysts to conduct deep research across sectors and equities, build investment theses, maintain financial models and datasets, identify catalysts and risks, track structural trends, and improve scalable research processes to generate actionable equity insights.

Lead development and execution of listed volatility relative value strategies across VIX and SPX futures/options. Manage portfolio P&L, risk limits, margin and hedging. Develop pricing, volatility analytics and execution methods. Partner with Risk, Technology, Operations and Finance, prepare P&L attribution and risk reporting, and expand strategies into new markets.

Manage a proprietary options trading book focused on Kospi Index Options; generate and implement trading ideas; analyse historical performance; monitor and manage real-time risk; build and backtest quantitative strategies using statistical modelling.