Quantitative Trader - Algorithmic DeFi Trading
For those who see the mempool as a chessboard and haven't lost a game they care about yet.
We are a representing a quantitative trading firm operating across crypto markets and their DeFi desk is where the serious work happens. Their reputation has been built on being early, rigorous, and relentlessly curious about where the market is inefficient, mispriced, or simply hasn't caught up with them yet.
They're not looking for someone to run BAU. They're looking for someone who writes a new playbook and then argues, convincingly, for why the old ones were wrong.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Developing and executing quantitative trading strategies in DeFi markets
- Identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies: arbitrage, MEV, liquidity provision, basis trades
- Building the infrastructure that supports your strategies: from execution scripts to monitoring dashboards to that one crucial on-chain listener that runs at 3am.
- Collaborating closely with a lean, highly skilled team. This will look like debating assumptions, stress-testing models, and occasionally being wrong in interesting ways.
- Staying genuinely ahead of the curve: tracking protocol upgrades, governance proposals, liquidity shifts and new primitives
- Contributing to the team's broader research culture. You'll be sharing ideas freely, citing your sources, and never hoarding signal.
What They're Looking For
- Deep, hands-on understanding of DeFi mechanics beyond surface-level familiarity. The knowledge that comes from having lost money to a liquidation cascade for example.
- Strong quantitative foundation: statistics, probability, financial modelling, and the intellectual honesty to know when your model is lying to you.
- Proficiency in Python (or Rust/C++ if you want bonus points and a knowing nod from the engineering team).
- Experience in systematic or algorithmic trading specifically in DeFi
- Ability to operate with autonomy. They'll point you at the right problems; they expect you to find the right answers.
What You Get in Return
- Seriously intellectual colleagues: A tight-knit DeFi team that reads papers, argues about mechanism design, and doesn't tolerate bullshit — including their own.
- A base at their office in London, with frequent opportunities for inter-office travel globally.
- Real capital and real risk: they trade with conviction. If your strategy is good, you can expect them to rally around that with technical support and further capital.
- Early access to the right type of tough problems: they're building toward being the dominant force in DeFi trading. Joining now means you help shape the direction and own a real piece of their upside.