Quantitative Developer

Summary

The Quantitative Developer at Syndr will design and develop complex quantitative models, build automated trading strategies, research market trends, collaborate with various teams, engage in early development, and build tooling for performance measurement and risk management. The role requires Python and Golang development experience, algorithmic trading experience, expertise in derivatives contracts, prior professional career as a quantitative developer, and familiarity with Jupyter notebooks, Postman, Postgres.

Requirements

• Python and Golang development experience
• Algorithmic trading experience, preferably equity/forex derivatives and/or market-making
• Expert knowledge of derivatives contracts, specifically European Options, Futures, and perpetuals
• Real-world experience with derivatives pricing, hedging and risk models(greeks)
• Prior professional career as a quantitative developer
• Experience with Jupyter notebooks, Postman, Postgres

Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex quantitative models
• Build sample automated trading and market-making strategies for implementation as Syndr LP Pools or as Strategy Vaults
• Research and analyze trading datasets to find market trends, exploitable patterns, and popular strategies which can be offered to our exchange users within DeFi
• Collaborate with Traders, Engineers, Users, and Researchers to build, test and optimize current platform models for risk and pricing
• Engage in early development and transition towards a more researched-focused role
• Build the tooling to measure performance and manage risk across the protocol

Preferred Qualifications

• Good with maths, statistics, probability and problem-solving
• Experience with trading crypto derivatives i.e futures & spot on Deribit/Paradigm
• Prior trading experience(in Traditional markets or crypto/DeFi), with knowledge of derivative products like futures, options, and perpetuals
• Experience with other non-trading DeFi products like swaps, lending, etc
• Experience working on trading systems and infrastructure
• Experience working with FIX APIs

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to work with a small, focused & ambitious team on very interesting projects and get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial
• Sense of a Shared Mission
• Work on the latest technology, equipment, and web3 stack with dedicated budgets
• Flexible working hours
• Annual team retreat