Trade Execution Engineer, Portfolio Strategy

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We've made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

We are looking for a Trade Execution Engineer  to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with our portfolio strategists, engineers and data scientists to design, develop, and implement a range of features for our automated trading system. You will take ownership of an execution subsystem in terms of both design and implementation with the goal of maximizing strategy alpha.

You will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, contribute to the development of innovative products, and grow your skills in a collaborative and supportive environment. You'll be an engineer, working in a high stakes financially driven environment- success in this role requires a competitive edge, high autonomy, strong instincts and conviction in decision making. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize alpha signals provided by our quantitative researchers to execute trades across multiple asset classes, including but not limited to US Equities, Cryptocurrencies, Futures, Options, Forex, and International Equities.
• Ownership of execution strategy
• Establish and maintain connectivity with different brokerages across different asset classes.
• Automate records gathering, PnL reporting and trading statistics generation.
• Build general tooling for traders and strategists to leverage

Requirements

• Proficiency in coding execution systems, with a preference for candidates with Python programming skills. Knowledge of Rust would be an advantage. 
• A basic foundation in statistical principles, including but not limited to correlation analysis, A/B testing, and the capability to perform post-trade analysis.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win 
• Own your shit 
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Annual Health & Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.