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title: 'Junior Trader at Wormhole Labs'
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# Junior Trader at Wormhole Labs

- **Company:** Wormhole Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs/06e547b0-a5be-4bc6-ab0f-b0c2519d751c

## Job description

We're hiring a Junior Trader to join our trading team. You'll work directly with senior traders across strategies on centralized and decentralized venues, and take on your own responsibilities quickly. We don't require prior DeFi experience. We do require that you're quantitative, technical, and able to move fast without breaking things.

## What you'll do

- Execute and manage trades across centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) venues — order books, AMM pools, and concentrated liquidity positions.
- Monitor positions, inventory, and P&L in real time. Identify risks early and act on them.
- Build and improve the tooling the desk runs on: position trackers, reporting dashboards, hedging workflows, reconciliation.
- Analyze market and execution data to answer questions that matter — where slippage comes from, which pools are actually profitable, how our fill quality compares to the market.
- Develop real depth in market structure and protocol mechanics (AMMs, PMMs, lending protocols) and bring it back to the desk.

## What we're looking for

- 0–3 years of experience — recent graduates with strong technical credentials, or candidates from quant research, engineering, data, or markets-adjacent roles looking to move onto a trading desk.
- Strong quantitative foundation: probability, statistics, and the instinct to reach for data before opinions.
- Python preferred, ideally applied to financial modeling or data analysis (pandas, notebooks, working with messy datasets). Adjacent tooling — R, MATLAB, SQL, serious Excel modeling — counts.
- Real interest in crypto and DeFi. Professional crypto experience isn't required; demonstrated engagement with the space is.
- Sound judgment under pressure. Markets move at 3am and things break. We need someone who stays composed, thinks clearly, and escalates early.
- Precise communicator
- Self-directed and adaptable; comfortable operating with autonomy across time zones in a remote-first environment.

## Nice to have

- Personal trading, market-making, or on-chain activity of any kind — a portfolio, a bot, an arbitrage script, a Dune dashboard.
- Familiarity with Solana tooling (Jupiter, Orca, Drift) or EVM DeFi (Uniswap, Aave, Curve).
- Exposure to algorithmic or systematic trading.
- Machine learning or large-scale data analysis (regression, tree-based methods, classification).
- Internships or prior work at a trading firm, market maker, exchange, or protocol.

## What you'll get

- Direct mentorship from traders running real capital — you'll learn by working alongside them, not from a curriculum.
- Responsibility as fast as you can earn it, with clear feedback on where you stand.
- Exposure across the full stack of a trading operation: execution, risk, tooling, counterparty relationships, and market structure.
- A front-row seat as equities, commodities, and crypto converge on-chain.

## About Wormhole Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wormhole Labs develops open-source blockchain interoperability technology to enable seamless communication and asset transfer across multiple blockchain networks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; operates across the United States, Sweden, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Tony Jin (Co-Founder & CTO), Anthony Ramirez (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Infrastructure / Cross-Chain Interoperability
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, decentralized application (dApp) builders, protocols, and enterprises building multichain applications
- **Mission**: "To radically reduce the friction of building multichain applications" and create a boundaryless blockchain world where users can ignore the underlying technology or dive deep if they choose.

## Products & Services
- **Wormhole Protocol**: The core open-source blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication, asset transfers, and data passing between over 30+ blockchains (including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and others).
- **Wormhole Connect**: A frontend SDK and widget that allows developers to integrate cross-chain functionality into their applications with minimal code.
- **Wormhole Queries**: A system for syncing data across EVM chains and Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain data retrieval.
- **Example Swap Layer**: A reference implementation for a Uniswap-based swap layer integrated with the Wormhole Liquidity Layer.
- **Solana World ID Program**: An on-chain template bringing Worldcoin's World ID identity verification to the Solana ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — not publicly disclosed; company is believed to be well-capitalized given its roots in Jump Trading/Jump Crypto (founders and many early team members came from Jump)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - **AMD** — collaborating on FPGA accelerators to enhance blockchain connectivity
  - **Jump Trading / Jump Crypto** — key talent source and likely strategic backer
  - **Uniswap** — via the example swap layer integration
  - **Worldcoin** — via the Solana World ID integration
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 35.7% YoY (from ~9 to 12 employees)
  - Monthly headcount growth of 5.6%
  - Team spans 5 countries with 42% in the US
  - 63 public repositories on GitHub with active open-source contributions
  - High LinkedIn engagement on partnership announcements (e.g., AMD collaboration received 380+ reactions)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep expertise**: Team hails from quantitative trading (Jump Trading), venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds — bringing a rare combination of financial rigor and blockchain engineering depth.
- **Open-source leadership**: Actively contributes to the core Wormhole protocol and maintains 63 public repos, fostering developer trust and ecosystem adoption.
- **Cross-chain ubiquity**: Supports 30+ blockchains, making Wormhole one of the most widely integrated interoperability protocols in the industry.
- **Security-first approach**: Emphasizes secure development practices and partners with hardware leaders (AMD) for FPGA-accelerated blockchain connectivity.
- **Remote-first culture**: Ability to attract top global talent without geographic constraints.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening interoperability**: Continuing to expand the number of supported blockchains and improve cross-chain messaging efficiency.
- **Developer experience**: Making multichain development as simple as single-chain development through SDKs, widgets, and reference implementations.
- **Identity and composability**: Exploring cross-chain identity solutions (e.g., World ID on Solana) and composable liquidity layers.
- **Hardware acceleration**: Partnering with AMD to leverage FPGA technology for faster, more secure blockchain connectivity.
- **Growing the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Rust, Solana, frontend), product design, and legal functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Team operates fully remote, working US Eastern Time hours, allowing for flexible location arrangements.
- **High agency, low ego culture**: The company explicitly seeks "customer obsession, high agency, and extreme ownership" — valuing impact over hierarchy.
- **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Employees work on one of the most widely used interoperability protocols in the industry, solving genuinely hard distributed systems problems.
- **Diverse, global team**: Colleagues from quantitative trading, venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds across the US, Europe, and Asia.
- **Open-source impact**: Contributions are public, visible, and directly used by developers building on 30+ blockchains.
- **Growth trajectory**: Small team (~12 people) with rapid growth — offering outsized ownership and impact for early employees.
- **Current open roles** (as of mid-2025): Senior Product Engineer, Solana Protocol Engineer, Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer, Creative Director, General Counsel — indicating expansion across engineering, product, and leadership.

## Sources
1. [wormholelabs.xyz](https://www.wormholelabs.xyz/)
2. [LinkedIn - Wormhole Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wormholelabs)
3. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Careers](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz)
4. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz/jobs)
5. [GitHub - Wormhole Labs](https://github.com/wormholelabs-xyz/)
6. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs)

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