Updated on October 14, 2018.

Do you work at a prop trading firm and want to know what is your competition doing in the crypto trading markets?

Or perhaps you made your own crypto trading bot in Python or Java and want to find out if your skills are a match for a job in the “big-leagues”?

Consider These Open Positions

Akuna Capital: has multiple crypto related positions

Belvedere Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Chimera Securities: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

CTC (Chicago Trading Company): NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

D.E. Shaw: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

DRW (incl. subsidiary Vigilant): has a crypto trading / OTC subsidiary Cumberland Mining and numerous crypto related positions

DV Trading: has a crypto trading division DV Chain with a few crypto related jobs

Five Rings: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Flow Traders: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Gelber Group: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Geneva Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

GTS Securities: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in articles about trading firms in cryptos (see below)

HC Technologies: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in articles about trading firms in cryptos (see below)

Hudson River Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in articles about HFT firms in cryptos (see below)

IMC: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Jane Street: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but has been mentioned in articles about trading in the crypto markets

Jump Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but has been mentioned in articles about investments in the crypto companies and is also named in articles about HFT firms in cryptos (see below)

Optiver: NO crypto jobs found careers pages but the former head of ETF expansion founded the crypto trading firm Wintermute which has open position(s)

PEAK6: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Point72: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but a former manager launched a crypto fund

SALT Lending: has a few crypto algo / trading jobs

FYI: not strictly a “prop trading firm” but I have included them for their postings

Simplex Investments: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Susquehanna International Group: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in articles about HFT firms in cryptos (see below). Recently, SIG expanded services for their clients by allowing access to their prop crypto-trading facilities.

Teza: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

3Red Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Tower Research: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in articles about HFT firms in cryptos (see below)

TwoSigma: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Vatic Labs: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Virtu Financial (incl. KCG): NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Volant Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

Wolverine: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages

XR Trading: NO crypto jobs found on careers pages but is mentioned in this article to be hiring crypto positions

Major Investors

Also of note is that Goldman Sachs hired the head of its new digital assets division. Moreover they are invested in Circle Trade, which acquired Poloniex, the #4 of the top US exchanges (GDAX, Bittrex, Kraken, Poloniex, Gemini).

Similarly, ICE (Inter Continetal Exchange) is invested in GDAX (Coinbase) via ICE’s subsidiary NYSE.

Relevant “Rumors”

Jump Trading, Tower Research, Hudson River Trading and Susquehanna International are said to be trading bitcoin, while “GTS Securities, Virtu Financial, and HC Technologies are among the electronic traders sizing up opportunities”.