Trade Systems Lead

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve backed 100+ early-stage teams that we believe can change markets and expand what’s possible. At Nascent, we combine venture + market pedigree with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue: experiments that ship fast, are evaluated rigorously, and move P&L. We focus on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time.

As Trade Systems Lead at Nascent, you’ll take full ownership of the systems that support, orchestrate, and scale our trading operation—from strategy configuration and controls to workflows, tooling, and integration points across research, trading, and platform. You will not be expected to be a domain expert in market microstructure or exchange-level execution. You will be expected to lead a team to build resilient systems that let our traders and researchers move fast, safely, and with leverage. This is a senior role with real leadership weight. You’ll lead a team, set direction, and run complex projects end-to-end—while staying close enough to the code to unblock hard problems and model what “good” looks like. You’ll partner tightly with traders, researchers, and platform leads, bringing order to ambiguity and turning intent into shipped systems. We’re looking for an AI-native, agentic engineer: someone who instinctively uses LLMs and modern tooling to accelerate design, planning, debugging, and delivery—and teaches their team to do the same. You create leverage through systems, people, and tools.

Engineering