Trader-in-Residence — Platform Experience & Product Testing

Navia Markets Ltd. | Chennai | Full-Time

About the Role

Navia is building out its trading platform — Chart Trader, Scalper, OTM Trader, Expiry Trader, and Commodity workspaces, live option chains with Greeks, position and order management, and more — and we want someone who lives inside options and commodity markets to sit on the terminal with us, not just test it in a lab.

This isn't a QA role in the traditional sense. We're looking for someone whose trading is already obsessive — the kind of trader who's watching the chain from market open to well past midnight on commodities, who has strong, specific opinions about what makes a trading screen fast versus slow, and who will tell us bluntly when something we've built doesn't survive contact with a real, fast-moving market.

You'll trade on the platform daily, using your own strategies and instincts, and in return you give us the sharpest, most honest feedback loop we can get: what breaks under pressure, what's a genuine friction point versus a minor annoyance, and what a platform built by people who actually live in the market would look like.

What You'll Actually Do

- - Trade, every day, on Navia — index and stock options, and commodities — across your own strategies (scalping, positional, expiry-day, spreads, whatever's actually yours), using the platform as your primary or parallel terminal.

- Stress-test current features as they ship — Chart Trader's order lines and drag-to-modify, the option chain's chain/depth/activity views, Scalper's quick-buy flow, Expiry Trader's risk guardrails — before and after they go live to other users.





- Flag real problems fast — a laggy quote, a confusing order ticket, a Greeks number that doesn't match your mental model, a workflow that takes three clicks when it should take one. We want this in real time, not in a quarterly survey.

- Think like an adversary of your own trades — deliberately push edge cases: fast expiry-day gamma moves, illiquid strikes, rapid order modification, high-frequency scalping — the scenarios that quietly break platforms that only get tested in calm conditions.

- Sit with product and engineering regularly to walk through what you found — not a formal ticket queue, a real conversation about what it felt like to trade on the platform that day.

- Have opinions, and defend them. If you think a feature is wrong, say so, and say why — from the seat of someone who'd actually use it, not a spec.

Who You Are

- - You trade options and/or commodities because you want to, not because it's your job — this is closer to a calling than a career move for you.

- You're realistically on a trading terminal most of the day, every trading day — you already know what that rhythm feels like and you're looking for a setup that pays you to keep living it, with a real platform-shaping mandate attached.

- You have strong,



specific opinions about trading platforms — you can articulate exactly why one broker's order ticket is better than another's, why a particular chart's latency bothers you, why a Greeks display is or isn't trustworthy at a glance.

- You're comfortable with volatility and risk as a normal part of your day — expiry days, gamma spikes, fast markets — and you understand those conditions well enough to explain them, not just survive them.

- You communicate feedback clearly and without diplomacy padding — we'd rather hear "this is broken and here's exactly why" than a softened version that takes three meetings to get to the real point.

- Comfortable working from our Chennai office and keeping market hours (and, given the trading patterns we're testing, some evening/ commodities-hours availability too).

Nice to Have

- - Experience across multiple trading platforms/brokers, so your feedback comes with real comparative context.

- A track record (even informal) of trading through full option expiry cycles and commodity sessions, not just backtested strategies.

- Any history of giving structured product feedback — a trading community, a broker's beta program, your own notes/journal on what platforms get right or wrong.

What This Role Is Not

- - It's not a support or operations role.

- It's not a "test script" QA job — we're not handing you a checklist, we're handing you a live terminal and asking you to trade and tell us the truth.

- It's not a research/analyst desk — your job is the platform experience, not generating trade calls for others.

📌 Options Trader (Chennai)
🏢 Navia
📍 Chennai