Who We Are
Freedx is a newly established cryptocurrency exchange focused on building a scalable, compliant, and liquidity driven trading platform. Our team brings deep experience across crypto exchanges, payments, market structure, and financial infrastructure. Freedx is built for serious traders and emerging markets, with a clear focus on unit economics, operational discipline, and sustainable growth.
Our Vision
Freedx aims to be a trusted global exchange by combining strong liquidity, efficient onboarding, and disciplined growth execution. We focus on long term retention and monetization rather than vanity metrics, ensuring that growth directly translates into trading volume, revenue, and profitability.
About the Role
We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our trading product development team at a centralized crypto exchange (CEX). This role involves close collaboration with product, engineering, and other stakeholders across all stages of feature development — from idea and market analysis to delivery and release.
A solid understanding of trading fundamentals is important (spot trading, futures trading, order types, PnL, fees, liquidity basics). Deep trading expertise is not mandatory, but hands-on familiarity is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze and decompose product requirements for trading-related features
- Conduct competitor and market analysis (CEX / DEX / trading platforms)
- Create, maintain, and improve product and business documentation, including:
- Product Requirements Documents (PRD)
- Business Requirements
- User Stories and Use Cases
- Acceptance Criteria
- User flows and business logic diagrams
- Work closely with:
- Product Manager
- Backend and Frontend engineering teams
- QA and Design teams
- Ensure knowledge transfer to the development team:
- Explain business logic and edge cases
- Participate in grooming and refinement sessions
- Answer product-related questions during development
- Participate in all stages of the feature lifecycle:
- Discovery
- Design
- Development
- Testing
- Release
Requirements
Must-have:
- 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst (Middle) or 4+ years (Senior)
- Understanding of trading basics:
- Spot trading
- Futures Trading
- Order types (Market, Limit, Stop, etc.)
- PnL, fees, balances
- Basic understanding of liquidity and matching engines
- Strong experience in writing clear, structured documentation
- Ability to work with requirements and turn them into clear specifications
- Experience working with engineering teams
Nice-to-have:
- Understanding of CEX architecture (accounts, balances, orders, ledger)
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Miro, Figma
Benefits
Freedx is an equal opportunity employer. We stand for an open and inclusive work environment that fosters the well-being of everyone. We embrace and encourage differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our people unique.
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