DeFi Quant Engineer

🚀 Hiring: Remote DeFi Quant Engineer

Global Trading Team | Europe HQ

📍 Location: Remote (Global) - paying $100k/120k per annum

🕒 Type: Full-time - contractor agreement

We’re partnered with a high-growth quantitative trading firm headquartered in Europe, building next-generation DeFi trading infrastructure. The team combines expertise from top-tier quant firms, DeFi protocols, and crypto-native hedge funds.

Culture highlights: technical innovation, autonomy, and measurable impact — ideal for engineers passionate about performance, scalability, and on-chain systems.

The Role: DeFi Quant Engineer

You’ll architect and optimise on-chain trading systems and execution frameworks. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll work on low-latency pipelines, smart contract integrations, and gas-efficient code to power systematic strategies across decentralised markets.

Key Responsibilities

✅ Build and maintain high-performance trading infrastructure for on-chain execution

✅ Develop smart contract interactions and optimise for gas efficiency

✅ Design scalable data pipelines for real-time analytics and decision-making

✅ Profile and tune systems for latency, resilience, and fault tolerance

✅ Collaborate with quant researchers to integrate strategies into production systems

Requirements

✔ Strong programming skills in Rust, Solidity, TypeScript, or Python

✔ Experience with distributed systems, low-latency architecture, and DeFi APIs

✔ Deep understanding of blockchain mechanics, AMMs, and liquidity dynamics

✔ Familiarity with RPC nodes, subgraphs, and blockchain data indexing

✔ Solid grasp of performance optimisation and system reliability

Nice to Have: MEV-aware execution, cross-chain infra, HFT systems, open-source contributions

Why Join?

🌍 Remote-first, globally distributed team

⚙ Work on cutting-edge DeFi infra and execution systems

📈 Build proprietary strategies with measurable impact

💰 Competitive compensation + strong performance upside

📩 Interested? Apply now