Swissblock is hiring a
Senior Quant Engineer

Summary

Swissblock is a self-funded and profitable international company specializing in algorithmic trading strategies for cryptocurrency and traditional markets. They are looking for a Senior Quant Engineer to implement and monitor robust and scalable trading strategies in their proprietary platform based on specifications provided by the Quant Research team. The candidate will collaborate with software engineers to build new trading strategies, maintain existing ones, and influence technical direction.

Requirements

• M.Sc. in Computer Science or a highly quantitative discipline
• Financial background in traditional finance or digital assets
• Experience in designing and developing quantitative/algorithmic trading strategies
• Algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design
• Hands-on senior-level experience in Python programming
• Working experience with databases: relational, NoSQL and time series
• Proficient written and verbal communication in English
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own and solve issues

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements in direct contact with business and technical stakeholders
• Design, plan and implement new trading strategies in Python
• Maintain, enhance and monitor the existing strategies
• Drive and track the progress of trading system changes from concept to production

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures, GCP preferred
• Unix based systems, containerized environments and Kubernetes
• Websocket, REST API and message brokers (e.g. Kafka, NATS, MQ)
• Highly proficient in asynchronous, event driven distributed systems

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading
• Self-funded and already profitable international company in a future-proof market
• Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision-making
• Work-life balance with a remote-first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland)
• Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus
• 25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events