Quantitative Trading Specialist - Decentralized Finance

We’re helping build out a quant function for a high-performance Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Trading Venue. This is an on-chain perpetuals exchange handling significant volume, looking to further establish their Quant practice.

This is a hands-on & Technical Quantitative trading role where you’ll sit right at the intersection of trading strategy, and production systems. You’ll own the full lifecycle - from idea generation and backtesting through to live trading behaviour under real market stress.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and iterating market-making strategies for perpetual futures, including pricing, spreads, sizing, and inventory/risk controls.
• Building fair-value models and microstructure signals that account for volatility regimes, adverse selection, and exchange-specific dynamics.
• Taking strategies into production and owning their behaviour in live markets — including monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem analysis.
• Defining robust safety rails for extreme conditions such as thin liquidity, price dislocations, and fast market moves.
• Working closely with engineering to ensure systems fail safely, predictably, and transparently.

What “good” looks like here:

• You can clearly explain why a strategy makes money, and when it shouldn’t be trading.
• You favour simple, testable logic with measurable impact over overly complex or fragile models.
• You’re comfortable owning trading systems end-to-end and defending your design decisions, collaborating with technical founders

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience designing and evaluating trading strategies, ideally in market making or execution within a CEX or DeFi environment
• Strong quantitative fundamentals across probability, statistics, optimisation, and time-series analysis.
• Solid engineering instincts and experience working with order books and exchange mechanics.
• The ability to communicate assumptions, limitations, and risk clearly.
• Exposure to Python and/or Rust

Nice to have:

• Experience with perpetuals (funding, margin, liquidation mechanics).
• Background in DeFi trading systems or high-throughput, low-latency environments.

The setup:

• Fully remote, across East Asia/Australia/NZ. Must be within +- 3 hrs AEDT. (We have team members across Singapore, Australia and NZ)
• Comp paid in USDC, with additional upside tied to long-term success.
• Small, senior team, high ownership, and a strong engineering-first culture.

If you’re excited by real market structure problems, care about correctness under stress, and want to build systems that actually trade, this one’s worth a conversation.

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