Quantitative Researcher - Digital Assets Liquidity

Keyrock

What we are looking for...A dynamic, experienced Quantitative Researcher to work in collaboration with our engineers, data scientists and quantitative traders to support our market-making and proprietary trading initiatives.

Job Description

An ideal candidate lives and breathes math and statistics, enjoys digging into data, loves solving hard, ambiguous challenges and ideally has a track record of adding significant, tangible value to trading businesses. Your mission will be to help shape Keyrock s trading strategies. Tasks:

• market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi);
• researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets;
• trading and hedging both cryptocurrencies and FX.
  
  

Background And Experience

As a Quantitative Trading researcher, you have strong analytical capabilities and are fully comfortable with financial markets and trading algorithms in order books. You are/have:

• 5+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communicator
• Programming skills in Python
• Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms
• Desirable: a master-level degree or PhD in a relevant hard science eg. maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quant finance etc.
• A passion for algorithmic trading
• The ability to take ownership of a project while collaborating on it with colleagues
• Fluency in English
  
  

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals. Were after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who s driven, collaborative, acts with ownership and delivers solid, scalable