Quant Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute vault strategies from initial thesis and design document through to implementation, simulation, deployment, and operational management.

• Enhance strategies via signal research, execution improvement, gas-aware rebalancing across tokens and chains, liquidity oversight, and duration management.

• Perform due diligence on protocols and assets, assessing protocols, collateral assets, and chains for solvency mechanics, oracle design, redemption pathways, and liquidity depth.

• Assume responsibility for risk parameters including supply limitations, LLTV settings, concentration thresholds, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking mechanisms.

• Integrate new protocols and chains by constructing and validating adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges.

• Verify strategy performance against forked-chain simulations prior to capital involvement.

• Enhance risk-monitoring and alerting systems while defining paging conditions.

• Participate in the on-call rotation for strategies you manage.

• Assist in vault and strategy launches in collaboration with growth, capital markets, and client teams.

• Take ownership of strategy performance, safety, and uptime throughout the entire strategy lifecycle.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building quantitative systems that operate in production—algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market making, or risk systems within a trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto-focused company.

• Typically 2–8 years of experience, with a focus on your accomplishments detailed in your résumé.

• Proficient in Python with strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing and code review.

• Applied quantitative expertise in optimization, statistics, and simulation.

• Capability to validate models with real-world data.

• Proficiency with SQL and data pipelines.

• Experience in production ownership, including debugging live systems under pressure and ensuring accuracy, monitoring, and recovery of systems.

• Excellent technical communication skills.

• Hands-on experience in DeFi is a plus, including lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems.

• Knowledge of Solidity / EVM is advantageous; experience with non-EVM platforms such as Solana is also valued.

• On-chain operational experience involving multisig workflows, transaction submission and signing infrastructure, and bridging is beneficial.

• Familiarity with TypeScript and a modern data stack such as BigQuery, Dagster, Hex, GCP/Kubernetes is a plus.

• Experience with risk modeling for volatile or thinly-traded assets, including VaR, liquidation modeling, and stress testing is a benefit.

• A genuine interest in digital assets and DeFi.

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and manage occasional market-event nights.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment—ability to work from anywhere in the US & Canada.

• Regular in-person company retreats and a cross-country "office visit" perk.

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.

• $1,000 work-from-home stipend.

• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data expenses.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• 100% paid parental leave for 12 weeks.

• Fertility benefits available.

• Potential for incentive compensation.

• Equity stake in the company.

• Additional On Target Earnings potential based on level.