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title: 'Junior Trading Operations Specialist at Wincent'
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# Junior Trading Operations Specialist at Wincent

- **Company:** Wincent
- **Location:** Bratislava, Slovakia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wincent/3f749456-0b82-48e0-ade8-d24bd39d22b1

## Job description

Launch your career. Own real work from day one, learn fast with a high-quality team, and build real-world skills across ops, risk, and tooling. Steep learning, real responsibility, clear path up.

## What you’ll do

A hands-on start to your career. You’ll learn how markets actually work by operating the trading desk’s core workflows: trade booking, P&L, reconciliations, and cash management. You will monitor incoming and outgoing funds to make sure all transactions check out. When new opportunities arise, you will work with the trading team to set up new venues and products. As you progress, you’ll take on process design, automation, team oversight, gaining skills that open paths into trading, operations, risk, or finance.

## What you’ll bring

- Diligent and detail-oriented.
- Comfortable with numbers, sceptical and curious.
- Excited to learn new things.
- Interest in finance or crypto.
- Good written and spoken English.

## What you’ll gain

- Real ownership, trading exposure, no micromanagement.
- Fast learning alongside a top trading team.
- Competitive compensation, eligibility for semi-annual bonuses.
- Clear progression path based on performance.
- Front-row view of the fastest market on earth.

## Benefits at Wincent

- Food: Free meals all day..
- Office perks: Gym, cafe, game room, day care for kids.
- Opportunity to co-invest into our fund.
- Education: English lessons and access to our internal library on projects, management strategies, investments.
- Mental Health: We cover 50% of therapy costs.
- Meaningful referral bonus: Up to 100% of the hired person’s monthly salary.

## About Wincent

We’re a 150-person high-frequency crypto trading firm, moving $5B+ in daily volume. Already top-10 globally; aiming for #1.

Culture

- Integrity first. We do work we’re proud of.
- Say it straight. No politics, no fluff.
- Trust by default. Transparent comp, bonuses, and how we operate.

Working at Wincent At Wincent, we foster a culture of transparency, ownership, and autonomy, where every team member is empowered to make a meaningful impact. We prioritize clear objectives and give you the freedom to innovate and grow within a supportive, high-performing environment. We value exceptional TOP 1% talent over a perfect match to a job description. If our vision and values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you. Don’t hesitate to reach out—let’s explore how you can be part of shaping the future of cryptocurrency trading with us!

## About Wincent

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wincent is a high-frequency trading firm focused on digital assets, providing liquidity and execution across global crypto markets using proprietary algorithms and low-latency infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; profitable since founding)
- **Headquarters**: Gibraltar (with offices in Bratislava, Helsinki, Zurich, Prague, Hong Kong, London, Vilnius, Warsaw, Shanghai, Dubai)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Matus Kopf (CEO), Michal Kopf (CIO), Tom Mazur (Co-CIO), Samuel Hapak (CEO/Director)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Crypto market making, high-frequency trading, digital asset liquidity provision
- **Target customers**: B2B – crypto exchanges, institutional traders, and platforms needing deep liquidity
- **Mission or purpose**: “We are here to win the crypto trading game, not just to participate in it” – ambition to become the number one crypto trading firm globally

## Products & Services
- **Market Making & Liquidity**: Wincent’s algorithms price, hedge, and execute thousands of trades per second across 100+ assets on 15+ venues, providing tight spreads and continuous liquidity.
- **Gibraltar Fund**: An Experienced Investor Fund authorised by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC), offering structured exposure to digital asset trading strategies.
- **Proprietary Technology Platform**: In-house built HFT infrastructure that supports daily notional volume of ~$5B and ~500,000 trades per day.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held)
- **Key Metric**:
  - Daily traded volume: $5B+ notional (~1% of global crypto daily volume)
  - Employees: 150+ across trading, research, and engineering
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors (bootstrapped); trades on every major crypto exchange
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Top 10 global crypto market maker
  - Expanded to 11 offices across Europe and Asia
  - Deployed capital of $750M referenced in leadership bios (likely firm’s own trading capital)
  - Continues to hire across quant, engineering, and operations roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Flat PnL share model**: Quants and traders receive a fixed percentage of their own profit and loss – no pod politics.
- **Transparency**: All salaries, bonuses, and PnL figures are visible internally; monthly PnL summaries shared firm-wide.
- **Speed**: Strategy ideas can go from paper to production in a day or two.
- **No silos**: Engineers, quants, and ops collaborate directly; nothing is hidden.
- **Integrity focus**: “Be the good guys in the market” – handshake culture, no politics, merit-based decisions.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale trading operations across more assets and venues while maintaining execution quality
- Deepen presence in energy trading (listed Senior Power roles) as a new vertical
- Continue hiring top-tier talent to raise the bar with every new hire
- Maintain a high-performance, low-bureaucracy culture as the firm grows

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-trust, transparent, ownership-driven environment with flat structure and no micromanagement.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid options available for many roles (e.g., engineers in Slovakia/Czechia); fully on-site in Gibraltar; some roles allow remote work.
- **Compensation & Perks**:
  - Flat PnL share for revenue-generating roles (no commission caps)
  - Bonuses twice a year with detailed attribution process
  - Public compensation internally
  - Monthly business performance updates
- **Engineering Culture**: Full ownership from idea to production; engineers build systems that move $5B daily; low latency and real-time challenge.
- **Locations**: Opportunities in Gibraltar, Bratislava, Helsinki, Zurich, Prague, Hong Kong, London, Vilnius, Warsaw, Shanghai, Dubai – global mobility potential.

## Sources
1. [wincent.com – Careers](https://www.wincent.com/careers/)
2. [wincent.com – About Us](https://www.wincent.com/about-us/)
3. [wincent.com – Homepage](https://www.wincent.com/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Wincent Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wincent)
5. [wincent.com – Culture](https://www.wincent.com/featured-insights/culture-at-wincent/)

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