--- title: 'Quantitative Trader | Hong Kong at Wincent' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/quantitative-trader-hong-kong-wincent-hong-kong-41wpga4mda9a' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Quantitative Trader | Hong Kong at Wincent - **Company:** Wincent - **Location:** Hong Kong, China - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wincent/e807be94-fe85-47ed-b813-b9ceaae943c3 ## Job description ## ABOUT WINCENT We do HFT on crypto. We make ~1% of global crypto trading volume. Our team is 150 people—mostly engineers, traders, and quants. We are a bit weird: - We strongly care about our culture. - We are self-taught. Our founders do not come from any of the big HFTs. - No VCs on our cap table. We reserve the spot for our employees instead. - Our central hub is neither in London nor Amsterdam, but in Bratislava. ## CULTURE We spend half of our waking hours working. That’s a lot. We don't see why we should treat work as a chore. We want it to be worth it. INTEGRITY ISN’T FOR SALE. No amount of money is worth your soul. We choose to be the good guys in the market. Handshakes are sacred for us. SAY THINGS AS THEY ARE. Life is too short for games of politics, or fluff in general. WE CHOOSE TO TRUST PEOPLE. We embrace radical transparency inside—whether it’s compensation, bonuses, or trading strategies. ## ABOUT THE POSITION We are looking for someone who can enrich our knowledge and bring bits and pieces of HFT experience that we might be missing today. ## EXPECTATIONS ## MUST-HAVES - Previous experience in systematic trading (At least three years of work experience) - Deep understanding of probability & statistics, data modelling skills, scientific thinking. - Some coding skills, e.g., in Python. - High agency. You care about results, you care about improving things around you, you own things end-to-end. - Willingness to relocate to Hong Kong, regular travelling to Bratislava. ## NICE-TO-HAVES (ABSOLUTELY NOT NECESSARY) - Crypto experience. - Ability to write production-grade code. WHAT WILL YOU DO? You’ll work in small teams within an open, transparent environment (no pods). We expect you to be generating research ideas, but we also have a backlog of our own. These can be either improvements to our existing strategies, or completely new ones. Depending on your level of experience, you may be the primary driver of the research direction. Responsibility for a strategy means responsibility for: modelling, testing, but also monitoring trading in production. Lastly, we also expect you to collaborate with others and share findings and knowledge. ## INTERVIEW PROCESS Our interview process is pretty simple: - Online Problems: Low-to-medium complexity problems focused on probability, logic, and mathematical skills. This is a take-home challenge that you can do in your free time. - Quant Interviews: Video-call with our quants focused on solving medium-to-hard complexity problems. - Betting Games: Engage in a set of betting games to evaluate your quantitative reasoning and decision-making skills. - Deep-Dive into Your Experience: Our CIO would discuss your experience and quant/trading knowledge with you. ## COMPENSATION Our compensation package consists of four parts: cash, equity, bonuses, and the ability to invest into our fund. ## EQUITY We want you to have skin in the game and big upside if we succeed as a company. We typically give 5-year equity grants to senior people. ## BONUSES We pay bonuses twice a year. These are discretionary and based on factors such as direct P&L you generated for the company, but also on your positive influence on the wider team. All bonuses are fully transparent within the company. ## FUND INVESTMENT Since its 2017 inception, our fund has achieved a net annualized return of over 50%. You can choose how much money you'd like to invest. ## 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. 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