Wintermute hiring in London

Wintermute is hiring for London trading roles that sit at the center of crypto market-making and decentralized-finance research. (wintermute.com) The company’s current London listings include a Quant Researcher focused on mid-frequency strategies and a graduate quant track for 2026, while Wintermute’s careers page says its trading team spans algorithmic, quantitative, over-the-counter and derivatives markets. (wintermute.com 1) (wintermute.com 2) (jobs.lever.co) Wintermute’s London quant role asks candidates to build and deploy trading models with holding periods longer than 10 seconds and up to days, analyze high-resolution market data, and work across cryptocurrencies using Python, with C++ listed as a plus. (wintermute.com) A market maker is the firm that keeps buy and sell quotes on screens so other traders can transact quickly, and Wintermute says it provides liquidity across major crypto exchanges, trading platforms, and over-the-counter channels. (wintermute.com 1) (wintermute.com 2) The decentralized-finance piece matters because Wintermute is not only trading tokens on exchanges. Its careers page says the DeFi team spans trading, technology, research and governance, and the company’s governance page lists work with Pyth, Arbitrum, Uniswap, dYdX and Ethena. (wintermute.com 1) (wintermute.com 2) The hiring comes after Wintermute reported a sharp rise in institutional-style activity. In a January 17, 2025 market review, the firm said its over-the-counter volumes grew 313% in 2024, average trade size rose 17%, and derivatives volumes grew more than 300%. (wintermute.com) Wintermute’s January 13, 2026 report said 2025 trading concentrated around Bitcoin, Ether and a narrow group of large-cap tokens, while options flow and execution-focused strategies gained share. The same report said the average altcoin rally lasted about 19 days in 2025, down from roughly 60 days a year earlier. (wintermute.com) That is the backdrop for the quant push in London: more crypto trading is being described by firms like Wintermute as systematic, data-heavy and execution-led rather than driven by long speculative runs in smaller tokens. Wintermute’s quant role explicitly targets researchers with mid-frequency or short-term alpha strategies from traditional finance or crypto. (wintermute.com) (wintermute.com) Wintermute has also been building its London pipeline beyond a single job post. On February 10, 2026, it announced a March 6 trader assessment day at its London office for graduates interested in trading roles starting in 2026. (wintermute.com) The thread running through all of it is simple: Wintermute is staffing London for people who can code, model markets and turn fragmented crypto liquidity into tradable prices. That is what its latest job descriptions say the desk needs now. (wintermute.com) (wintermute.com)