Quant Developer - Crypto Trading Firm

Requirements:

• We require a bachelors degree in computer science, mathematics, or physics.
• We require at least two years of professional experience as a quantitative software engineer building and operating production systems at a trading firm.
• We expect strong Python skills and experience with SQL, databases, APIs, testing, debugging, version control, agentic coding, and modern software-development practices.
• We look for strong quantitative and analytical abilities, with enough grounding in statistics, mathematics, or quantitative finance to implement research and work effectively with portfolio managers and traders.
• We expect familiarity with financial markets, trading, portfolio data, quantitative finance, and data used in research and trading.
• We value familiarity with derivatives and related techniques, such as backtesting, portfolio risk, factor models, options analytics, or market microstructure.
• We expect clear, maintainable coding and careful reasoning about data quality and system behavior.
• We look for strong problem-solving skills and comfort handling ambiguous, cross-functional challenges.
• We expect effective communication with engineers, portfolio managers, traders, and other stakeholders, along with ownership, sound judgment, and an interest in lean, collaborative teams.
• We consider proficiency in Go, C++, Rust, TypeScript, or another production-oriented language an advantage.
• We consider experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, real-time data, or workflow orchestration an advantage.
• We consider knowledge of blockchain infrastructure, onchain data, and decentralized finance an advantage.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• We expect you to program in Go, TypeScript, and Python, with some React.
• You will partner with the non-directional fund and collaborate directly with its portfolio manager, head of trading, and head of engineering.
• You will apply financial markets and quantitative knowledge—including modeling, derivatives, options pricing, risk, factor exposures, and interest rates—to support investment decisions.
• You will design, build, and deploy production-quality trading systems, data pipelines, databases, analytics platforms, and related infrastructure.
• You will build, enhance, and operate portfolio management, trading, market data, research, and risk systems, while creating tools for the investment team.
• You will develop production systems for portfolio analytics, P&L attribution, exposure analysis, risk management, and trade monitoring.
• You will develop and maintain integrations for market data, positions, pricing, and trade execution across brokers, exchanges, and data providers.
• You will turn research models and prototypes into tested, monitored, scalable production workflows.
• You will build tools for backtesting, simulation, signal analysis, portfolio construction, and scenario analysis.
• You will improve investment data accuracy, timeliness, and integrity through validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and quality controls.
• You will support systematic and relative-value strategies across equities, options, futures, digital assets, and structured products.
• You will own business-critical systems whose reliability, performance, and data quality affect investment decisions.

Technologies:

• Blockchain
• Cloud
• Support
• Liquid
• Python
• React
• Rust
• SQL
• TypeScript

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We are recruiting for a full-time, permanent role with a client company: a leading blockchain venture capital and crypto trading firm and an early industry investor. The firm invests through venture, liquid, and quantitative strategies, combining rigorous investment research with technical expertise and proprietary software. This role supports its non-directional liquid investment strategy across digital assets and related public markets, using systematic, relative-value, volatility, hedging, and event-driven approaches. The position is based in New York, NY, with remote work available two days per week. Compensation is up to $240,000 in salary, plus annual performance bonuses of up to $110,000, for total compensation of up to $350,000 per year. We are Skyrocket Ventures, a recruiting firm working with high-growth technology companies, from industry leaders to top-tier startups. We encourage candidates who are a reasonable match to apply, as our client may be flexible on qualifications; applicants may also be considered for other opportunities with our client companies.

last updated 43 week of 2026