DeFi Quant Engineer (Rust/Solidity)
Our client is a venture-backed firm building advanced digital asset trading technology to drive liquidity across centralized and decentralized platforms. They operate in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment with a flat structure and a founding team that combines decades of experience in traditional finance and digital assets.
They are seeking a DeFi Quant Engineer with strong analytical skills and technical expertise, ideally from a background in mathematics, physics, computer science, or engineering. The role involves working on on-chain market mechanics, liquidity strategies, and connectivity across AMMs and orderbook venues. Candidates passionate about areas such as DEX-CEX arbitrage, MEV-aware routing, and emerging strategies like just-in-time liquidity provision will thrive. This is a high-impact position offering close collaboration with the founding team and significant responsibility from day one.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, or computer science.
- Strong programming skills (2+ years) in Rust and Solidity.
- Excellent understanding of on-chain markets and trading opportunities.
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems for on-chain data processing or trading.
- Proficiency in writing high-performance, multi-threaded, and asynchronous code.
- Experience with scalable distributed systems interacting with L1/L2 networks.
- Solid understanding of databases, SQL, and efficient state/query modeling.
- Comfortable with Linux/Unix, AWS, Git, Docker, and modern DevOps workflows.
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