Head of Risk - Predictive Trading (High-Growth FinTech)

Company : Michael Page

Job Description - Head of Risk - Predictive Trading (High-Growth FinTech)

Young and Energetic Environment
Head of Risk Position

About Our Client

Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed prediction-market trading platform building its Asia-Pacific hub in Hong Kong. The company integrates elements of an exchange, broker, and clearing engine into a single real-time trading system, supported by strong institutional investors across Web3, technology, and digital-asset ecosystems.

Job Description

Build the real-time risk-decision engine, enforcing allow/restrict/block logic at millisecond speed
Design reserve & solvency monitoring, payout-risk thresholds, and auto-alert systems
Build a full Trading Credit Engine with issuance logic, dynamic limits & lifecycle controls
Detect multi-accounting, collusion, farming, and systematic arbitrage
Define user-tiering, restriction logic, and ensure enforcement at the order layer
Establish feedback loops with market makers to flag adversarial patterns and refine quoting
Make final judgments when there are risk-policy disputes across product, trading, and exchange teams
As the platform grows, transition into team leadership, hiring analysts and risk engineers

The Successful Applicant

10+ years experience in exchange risk, fintech risk, anti-fraud, or quant/market-risk roles
Background in trading systems, derivatives, payments, or online gaming strongly valued
Strong understanding of core trading-system mechanics:orderbooks, clearing & settlement flows, account-ledger structures. You don't need to have written a matching engine, but must be able to engage deeply with engineers who have
Hands-on SQL + Python for behavior analysis and prototype detection
Experience in adversarial environments where users actively probe and exploit rule gaps
Familiarity with real-time systems (Kafka/Flink or similar) is a plus
Strong ability to influence cross-functional teams with analysis, logic, and clarity

What's on Offer

Own and build the entire risk architecture from day one
Work on a complex trading platform combining exchange, brokerage, and clearing mechanics
Partner directly with founders, product, and market-making teams
Backed by reputable investors; launching major products this year

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Head of Risk - Predictive Trading (High-Growth FinTech)

Job Description - Head of Risk - Predictive Trading (High-Growth FinTech)

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