Summary
nahc.io is seeking a researcher to join its real-time information flows team focused on crypto markets. The role works with traders, researchers, and developers to identify news-driven trading opportunities, monitor breaking information, and build and maintain high-precision automated alerts and event-monitoring systems.
Responsibilities
- Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities
- Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information
- Maintain a detailed calendar of material events
- Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes
- Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources
- Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities
- Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change
- Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
- Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
- QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality
Skills
- Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news
- Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process
- Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time
- Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems
- Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck)
- Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics
- Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics
- Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL
- High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously
- Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately
- Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers
Qualifications
Must Haves
- Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news
- Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process
- Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time
- Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems
- Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck)
- Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics
- Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics
- Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL
- High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously
- Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately
- Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Remote work