Role Overview
We are looking for a highly analytical and technically-minded Risk Manager to join our Risk & Clearing team at Delta Exchange. You will be the primary owner of our exchange’s margin ecosystem, ensuring that our collateral requirements are balanced between capital efficiency for traders and systemic safety for the platform. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of derivatives market structures, a data-driven approach to liquidation analysis, and the ability to bridge the gap between complex financial risk and product development.
Requirements
Core Responsibilities
- Margin Methodology & Oversight
- Own and optimize margin calculations across all supported modes, including Isolated, Cross, and Portfolio Margin.
- Develop and refine risk parameters (maintenance margin, initial margin, and haircut models) to ensure the exchange is robust against extreme market volatility.
- Conduct stress testing and back-testing on margin models to ensure they withstand "black swan" events.
- Liquidation & Negative Equity Analysis
- Perform post-mortem analysis on trader liquidations to identify patterns of failure.
- Investigate cases of negative equity (socialized losses/ADL) to determine why margin was insufficient and recommend adjustments to the insurance fund or liquidation engine logic.
- Product & Technical Collaboration
- Tech Liaison: Partner with the engineering team to design and build real-time Risk Dashboards that monitor exchange-wide health, leverage ratios, and margin utilization.
- Translate complex risk requirements into technical specifications for the development of automated risk-mitigation tools.
- Trader Experience & Market Microstructure
- Collaborate with the Customer Experience (CX) team to investigate trader complaints regarding high slippage or liquidity constraints.
- Analyze order book depth and execution quality to understand how liquidity gaps contribute to liquidation cascades.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 3–5 years in Risk Management, Quantitative Analysis, or Operations within a Crypto Exchange, FinTech, or Traditional Derivatives Clearinghouse (CCP).
- Deep Domain Knowledge: Strong grasp of perpetual swaps, futures, and the mechanics of auto-deleveraging (ADL).
- Technical Proficiency: Ability to work with SQL for data extraction and Python/R for quantitative modeling. Experience with BI tools (Tableau, Grafana, or Looker) is a plus.
- Problem Solving: A "detective" mindset—you enjoy digging into trade logs to find out exactly why a liquidation went wrong.
- Communication: Ability to explain complex margin mechanics to non-technical stakeholders and customers.
Benefits
What you can expect from us:
- Collaborative remote work environment that allows you to have a work life balance.
- Growth framework that drives fast, continuous improvement
- Opportunity to learn and collaborate with the leadership team.
- Exciting team offsites and employee engagement activities.
