Quantitative Trader

What you’ll do as a Quantitative Trader at Syndr:

• 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

✅ 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

• Good with maths, statistics, probability and problem-solving

✅ You will stand out if you have…

• Experience with trading crypto derivatives i.e futures & spot on Deribit/Paradigm

• You have prior trading experience(in Traditional markets or crypto/DeFi), with knowledge of derivative products like futures, options, and perpetuals

• You have experience with other non-trading DeFi products like swaps, lending, etc.

• Experience working on trading systems and infrastructure

• Experience working with FIX APIs

🤝 Values & How we work?

The entire crypto space doesn't just move fast but is constantly accelerating. It’s hard building a DeFi product — it’s 24/7, 365 days a year, markets do not close, the ground beneath you can shift, assumptions can and do fail & risk of burning out is real.

• We take our product + brand very seriously.

  • If we see even a small flaw in our product, we always ask ourselves - Why isn't this perfect?

  • All members have perpetual autonomy to fix anything broken that we notice, and we do not wait for someone else to tell us what to do.

• Take extreme ownership of everything we do

  • If the team fails, everyone fails, so prioritize and execute.

  • We think long-term, set big goals, and communicate with clear directions and goals to achieve them. Everyone must understand not just what they're doing but also why they are doing it.

  • No Egos, lead by example, and mutual accountability.

• Strive for clear and simple communication - this is easier said than done but communicating the "why" of an issue is equally important as the "what.”

• All meetings have an agenda, with outcomes clearly defined as tasks and call-to-actions.

• Prioritize all tasks by - what is more important for our users without compromising on any of the above goals.

What we offer

• 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

• Competitive compensation