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# Trading Surveillance Analyst at Da Vinci

- **Company:** Da Vinci
- **Location:** Amsterdam North Holland, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives/jobs/4981589101

## Job description

Da Vinci is a unique proprietary trading firm specializing in market making, volatility trading and arbitrage across major global exchanges. Leveraging cutting-edge, in-house developed strategies, we identify market opportunities while providing liquidity and enhancing market efficiency.

We are currently looking for a Trading Surveillance Analyst to join our compliance team. This compliance role has a particular focus on monitoring and surveillance activities. You will work closely with the wider compliance team and business stakeholders in a high-performance trading environment, across both traditional finance (such as stocks and derivatives) and digital assets. This role is well suited to someone at the start of their compliance career who wants broad exposure to the function. The role is based in our Amsterdam office.

Da Vinci offers a dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

## Responsibilities

- Perform ongoing monitoring and surveillance of trading activity to identify, assess and escalate potential compliance risks.
- Investigate and document alerts generated by surveillance systems and help refine and calibrate surveillance rules and thresholds.
- Build out and improve our surveillance stack, combining third-party tools with in-house developed systems.
- Support the wider compliance team on day-to-day tasks, including regulatory requests, audits, inspections and internal reviews.
- Help prepare compliance reporting and management information.

## Requirements

- A university degree, preferably in law, finance, economics or a related field.
- 2-5 years of relevant experience in a compliance, regulatory or a related quantitative role.
- Comfortable working with large volumes of trading and system data.
- Proficient with MS Office, in particular Excel. Basic SQL and/or Python for data analysis is a plus, as is a willingness to learn.
- Demonstrable affinity with financial markets and a genuine interest in how trading and market structure work.
- Strong analytical skills, with an eye for detail.
- A proactive, curious mindset and willingness to take ownership.
- Comfortable working in a technology-driven trading environment.
- An interest in AI and new technology is a strong plus.
- Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus but not required.

## Benefits

- An opportunity to work beside the best in the field.
- Total package ranging between EUR 60k - 90k (based on experience).
- A relocation package when moving from abroad, including a relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support.
- Fresh breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by our in-house chef.
- Social events and after-work drinks.
- Reimbursement of travel costs to and from the office.
- In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games).

## About Da Vinci

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house that provides liquidity in digital assets and traditional financial instruments, solving market inefficiencies through volatility arbitrage and delta1 strategies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Proprietary trading firm)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial services – proprietary trading, market making, quantitative finance
- **Target customers**: B2B – exchanges, brokers, and counterparties in digital asset and traditional finance markets
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building the best proprietary trading house in the world" by solving technical and mathematical challenges with creative solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Liquidity Provision**: Da Vinci provides liquidity on major exchanges across Asia and the US, trading digital assets and traditional financial instruments.
- **Proprietary Trading**: The firm takes directional positions trading volatility, using quantitative strategies and volatility arbitrage.
- **Melzi (In-house Trading System)**: A custom-built, low-latency trading system developed from scratch by Da Vinci engineers, designed to implement sophisticated trading strategies efficiently.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – not applicable (bootstrapped proprietary firm); headcount growth indicated by active hiring across multiple offices.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors listed; partners include exchanges and brokers such as W.S.G. Abacus (university partner).
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion to four global offices (Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong) and continuous hiring for trading, quant, and engineering roles; launched own trading system Melzi.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Non-hierarchical culture**: Encourages employees to speak up and shape the firm’s future, with no limit on personal growth.
- **Custom-built technology**: The Melzi trading system is purpose-built for low latency and specific trading needs, giving a competitive edge.
- **Talent focus**: Hires "sharp minds and strong drive" across trading, quantitative research, and development, with a meritocratic reward system.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainable growth and collaboration** across teams and offices.
- **Continuous innovation** in trading strategies and technology, with ongoing investment in employee development and in-house training.
- **Expanding global presence** in key financial hubs (Asia, US, Europe).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Non-hierarchical, meritocratic, and collaborative – employees are encouraged to explore interests and take ownership.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and bonus based on performance, not seniority.
- **Benefits**: In-house training and external programs, relocation support for expats (including Dutch classes in Amsterdam), public transport costs covered, gym memberships, nutritious meals, health insurance.
- **Work environment**: Year-round social activities, company trips, in-house lounge, sports events.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices in Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong – likely office-based given trading environment.

## Sources
1. [davincitrading.com](https://davincitrading.com/)
2. [davincitrading.com/careers](https://davincitrading.com/careers/)
3. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives)
4. [abacus.utwente.nl](https://www.abacus.utwente.nl/partner/45-da-vinci.html)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/da-vinci-trading/jobs/)

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