Perpetual Futures Quant Trader – Perps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Create and refine high-frequency and systematic trading strategies for perpetual futures in both major and altcoin markets.

• Develop and enhance predictive models and signals for execution, funding rate arbitrage, basis trading, and post-trade analysis.

• Execute and oversee cross-exchange and cross-instrument arbitrage, including comparisons between perps and spot markets, as well as perps and futures.

• Manage margin and collateral availability, internal transfers, withdrawals and deposits, and post-trade reconciliation to ensure seamless settlements and minimize failures.

• Take ownership of the perpetual futures trading pipeline, which includes tracking funding rates, market making, and managing liquidation risk logic, monitoring, and deployment.

• Work collaboratively to enhance margin efficiency, cross-margining logic, and liquidation and risk management across different venues.

• Examine market microstructure, funding dynamics, and execution performance to improve Sharpe ratios and reduce slippage.

• Assist in the evolution of asset allocation logic while overseeing positions, margin, and collateral across more than 30 exchanges daily.

• Track open interest, funding rates, and leverage conditions to pinpoint and respond to market dislocations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in high-frequency or proprietary trading, specifically in crypto derivatives or traditional futures/options.

• Previous experience in a high-frequency derivatives setting, including funding or basis arbitrage, or within a low-latency trading/execution framework.

• Practical experience in trading perpetual futures, implementing funding rate strategies, and conducting cross-venue basis trades.

• Familiarity with derivatives market structure, margin and collateral mechanics, liquidation engines, and price discovery across perpetual venues.

• Proven experience in hedging strategies, managing margin and collateral flows, or optimizing asset rebalancing across various exchanges.

• A comprehensive understanding of market microstructure and the capability to design systems that derive an edge from funding, basis, and leverage dynamics.

• Strong analytical skills in reviewing PnL, post-trade statistics, and refining strategies to enhance Sharpe ratios, turnover, and drawdowns.

• Advanced proficiency in Python, applied statistics, and predictive modeling.

• Familiarity with Rust is considered a significant advantage.

• Ability to design and sustain a robust trading infrastructure, which includes real-time monitoring, execution diagnostics, dynamic parameter tuning, and automated risk controls.

🏝️ Benefits

• Profit shares that are directly tied to your performance and market outcomes — the potential is limitless.

• A budget for Learning & Development.

• Flexible benefits that you can customize — free meals, Bolt taxi rides, sports, spa & wellness options, etc.

• Opportunities to participate in global crypto events.

• Flexible working hours.

• Casual dress code.

• A startup-like atmosphere.