Founding Head of Trading

Location

Full-time

• Investabl is an up & coming CFD broker, currently in the early stages of build-out with funding in place and licences in flight.
• We are hiring a Founding Head of Trading to run the dealing desk from day one.
• You will own the A-book / B-book split, set hedging policy across asset classes, and have your hand on the kill switch when things get interesting.
• This is not a strategy seat.
• You will be on the desk during London open, Asia close, NFP, FOMC, and whatever the news cycle throws at us.
• We expect the person in this chair to know the difference between a real client edge and toxic latency-arb flow at a glance, and to act on it.
• What the role actually involves
• Designing and running the routing logic between our LPs and the internal book, by symbol, by client tier, by volatility regime.
• Owning dealing desk P&L from day one. You will be measured on it monthly.
• Pre-event positioning. Friday close on NFP weekends, central bank decisions, equity CFD earnings.
• Tail-risk hedging. We do not want to be the next Alpari. If you have a view on hedging a black swan without bleeding theta every month, we want to hear it.
• Selecting and onboarding the LP panel. Negotiating spreads, evaluating fill quality, dropping LPs that consistently underdeliver.
• Working with the Head of Risk to define exposure caps you can actually live with.
• Hiring the dealing team around you over the first 12 months.
• Who we think this is for
• 2-6 years on a CFD or FX broker dealing desk, ideally as a senior dealer, assistant head, or full Head of Trading at a mid-tier broker or better.
• Cyprus, Dubai, London, Singapore, Tel Aviv backgrounds all welcome.
• You know MT5 server-side configuration, FIX messaging, and at least one bridge well enough to argue with it.
• You have opinions on what oneZero, PrimeXM, Centroid, Gold-i, B2Broker, and Match-Trade each get right and what each of them gets wrong.
• We are still selecting the stack, and your view will shape that decision.
• You can hold both sides of the hybrid book in your head.
• You know when externalising costs you money and when internalising costs you sleep.
• Python or SQL fluency is a plus.
• What we offer
• A genuine founder-level seat. Not a "Head of" title with a Director's mandate. You shape the firm.
• Equity / profit-share structure designed for someone taking real upside in the build.
• Dubai relocation support if needed, or hybrid setup for the right person already in-region.
• Direct line to the CEO and the cap table. No middle management to filter your decisions.
• Competitive salary & ESOPs worthy of a founding team member
• If interested, send a note on LinkedIn.
• Two or three lines on the most interesting A/B book trade-off you have made in the last 18 months would be ideal.