Trading Operations Specialist

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in ZAF
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Junior
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
The Role
Monitor trading platforms, execution quality, liquidity, pricing, client exposure, and risk. Investigate trade issues, manage lifecycle corrections and reconciliations, respond to incidents, coordinate technical resolutions, and support hedging and routing optimization across global market-hour shifts.
Summary Generated by Built In
Key ResponsibilitiesTrade & Platform Operations
  • Monitor trading platforms to ensure uptime and execution quality
  • Oversee trade flow, execution, and pricing in real time
  • Identify and escalate execution issues, slippage anomalies, or pricing gaps
  • Manage trading sessions, market openings/closings, and instrument configurations
Liquidity & Pricing
  • Monitor liquidity feeds and ensure competitive spreads and depth
  • Liaise with liquidity providers to resolve pricing or execution issues
  • Analyze spread widening, latency, and execution quality (markouts, slippage)
  • Assist in optimizing routing and aggregation settings
Risk & Exposure Monitoring
  • Monitor client positions, exposure, and overall risk in real time
  • Support hedging strategies and execution of risk mitigation actions
  • Identify unusual trading activity or potential abuse (e.g., arbitrage, latency exploitation)
Trade Lifecycle Management
  • Handle trade adjustments, corrections, and dispute investigations
  • Ensure accuracy of trade records and reconciliation
Incident Management
  • Act as first responder for trading-related incidents
  • Investigate platform issues, outages, or abnormal market behavior
  • Coordinate with tech teams and external providers to resolve issues quickly
Requirements Experience & Skills
  • 2+ years experience in trading operations, dealing desk, or brokerage environment
  • Strong understanding of FX, CFDs, or crypto markets
  • Familiarity with trading platforms
  • Python scripting skills — ability to write and maintain automation scripts for monitoring, data extraction, reconciliation, and routine operational tasks.
  • SQL skills — writing queries (joins, aggregations, window functions) against trading and client databases for investigation, reporting, and anomaly detection.
Soft Skills
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
  • Problem-solving mindset with quick decision-making ability
  • Excellent communication skills
Working Conditions
  • Shift-based role (aligned with global market hours)
  • On-call availability for critical incidents may be required
KPIs / Success Metrics
  • Platform uptime and execution quality
  • Spread competitiveness and liquidity performance
  • Incident response time and resolution efficiency
  • Accuracy of trade handling and reporting

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of experience in trading operations, a dealing desk, or a brokerage environment
  • Strong understanding of FX, CFDs, or cryptocurrency markets
  • Familiarity with trading platforms
  • Python scripting skills for monitoring, data extraction, reconciliation, and operational automation
  • SQL skills, including joins, aggregations, and window functions, for investigation, reporting, and anomaly detection
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
  • Problem-solving mindset with quick decision-making ability
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Availability for shift-based work aligned with global market hours
  • On-call availability for critical incidents
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The Company
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

PrimeXBT is a global online trading platform founded in 2018. It provides more than one million users across 150+ countries with access to cryptocurrency and CFD trading, including crypto futures, copy trading, forex, commodities, stock indices, and other markets. Its web and mobile platforms offer trading tools, market access, and support, with a mission to make financial markets accessible to traders worldwide.

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