DeFi Quant Trader

About the Role

We are seeking a DeFi Quant Trader to join our firm. In this role, you and your team will take ownership of a set of high-impact trading strategies, including (but not limited to) DeFi–CeFi arbitrage, on-chain RFQ execution, and funding/basis arbitrage across multiple ecosystems and protocols.

You’ll be responsible for the operationalization, improvement, and expansion of these strategies—bringing sharp judgment, deep protocol understanding, and a quantitative mindset to the table. Over time, your responsibilities will grow to include the design and deployment of new trades as we continue to scale our strategy set.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of trading, technology, and protocol innovation—ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and wants to work at the cutting edge of decentralized finance.

Key Responsibilities

1. Trade Operationalization & Execution

• Deploy, monitor, and refine automated DeFi-CeFi arbitrage, funding basis, and RFQ-style strategies.
• Monitor order books, price feeds, mempool activity, and on-chain events to identify profitable trading opportunities.
• Ensure robust execution across DEXs, bridges, and centralized venues, minimizing latency, slippage, and failure rates.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to maintain and enhance real-time execution infrastructure, dashboards, and monitoring systems.

2. Quantitative Research & Strategy Improvement

• Perform post-trade analysis and PnL attribution, working closely with quant researchers to improve alpha capture and reduce leakage.
• Integrate predictive models, risk filters, or transaction cost models to refine execution logic.
• Contribute to backtesting, simulation, and live trading frameworks to validate new hypotheses and iterate on strategy logic.

3. Protocol and Ecosystem Awareness

• Stay up to date with emerging DeFi protocols, AMMs, bridges, and yield markets across chains (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc.).
• Assess and act on changes to protocol mechanics, liquidity flows, and incentive structures that may impact strategies.
• Proactively propose new trade ideas based on market structure dislocations, technical developments, or protocol opportunities.

4. Risk & Capital Management

• Monitor and mitigate smart contract, custody, and counterparty risks.
• Track gas costs, slippage, bridging delays, and MEV risks to ensure optimal execution quality.
• Ensure real-time position tracking and safe handling of collateral, liquidity, and trade failures.

Qualifications

Domain Knowledge

• Strong interest in DeFi markets and trading with hands-on exposure to protocols such as Uniswap, Curve, Aave, and cross-chain bridges.
• Solid understanding of blockchain execution models, including concepts like mempools, MEV, PGAs, reorg risk, atomicity, and finality.
• Familiarity with various blockchain ecosystems (e.g., EVM, Solana, MOVE-based chains) and their respective DeFi protocols.
• Ability to read and write Solidity or another smart contract language; comfortable reasoning about smart contract behavior and risks.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Proficient in Python (pandas, numpy, scipy); comfortable analyzing large datasets and building trading tools or monitoring systems.
• Experience designing or supporting automated trading strategies, including multi-leg or cross-venue execution.
• Strong analytical rigor—able to decompose trade profitability, execution risks, and performance drivers.

Mindset & Soft Skills

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action; thrives in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.
• Self-starter who takes ownership and responsibility for strategies from idea to deployment.
• Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across trading, research, and engineering teams.
• Willingness to hustle, iterate, and adapt—staying on top of protocol upgrades, market changes, and novel arbitrage opportunities.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience in high-frequency or proprietary trading, especially in crypto or emerging markets.
• Familiarity with on-chain analytics, simulation frameworks, or tools like Tenderly, Dune, or Flipside.
• Contributions to DeFi protocols, open-source tools, or smart contract audits.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a small, elite team at the frontier of crypto and DeFi trading.
• Work in a highly autonomous and meritocratic environment.
• Access to cutting-edge infrastructure, strategy capital, and protocol relationships to support your ideas.
• Competitive compensation with meaningful performance-based upside.