Varsity Holdings – Trading Operations Associate – Quant Trading

About Us

We are building an AI-first quantitative trading and research platform focused on systematically discovering and executing trading strategies.

Our trading arm runs fully automated strategies in US equities, with a focus on:

Small/mid-cap inefficiencies

Intraday trading

Data-driven edge discovery

We combine:

Proprietary backtesting infrastructure

Quantitative research workflows

AI-assisted strategy development

Working Hours: Monday–Friday, 3:30 PM–11:30 PM local time

Holidays: Follow US stock market holidays

Work Arrangement: Remote

About the Role

We operate a fully automated quantitative trading system focused on intraday US equities.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and reliable Trading Operations Associate to monitor our live trading systems during market hours. Your role is to make sure trading operations are running normally, identify issues quickly, and report anything unusual to the team.

This is primarily a monitoring and operations role — you will not be responsible for generating trading ideas or developing strategies.

What You Will Do

Monitor live trading activity, positions and P&L

Make sure trading systems and strategies are running normally

Identify and report unusual trades, system errors or execution issues

Monitor risk limits and escalate problems quickly

Record incidents and errors in the operations log

Perform simple analysis of trading activity and trade logs

Communicate issues clearly to the engineering/trading team

Prepare a short end-of-day operations summary

Tools

You may work with:

DAS Trader Pro

Internal trading dashboards

Google Sheets

Trading and signal monitoring tools

Slack / Discord

What We Are Looking For:

Very strong attention to detail

Calm under pressure

Able to respond quickly to instructions

Responsible and reliable

Comfortable monitoring multiple things at the same time

Able to identify when something looks unusual

Comfortable working independently after training

Nice to Have

Experience trading or monitoring financial markets

Basic understanding of US stocks and intraday trading

Experience with automated trading systems

Comfortable reviewing trade logs and identifying outliers

Compensation

Competitive base salary based on experience

Performance bonus

Remote work

Opportunity to grow into a senior trading operations role as the firm expands