Summary

What we are looking for

...A dynamic, experienced Quantitative Researcher to work in collaboration with our engineers, data scientists and quantitative traders to support our market-making and proprietary trading initiatives.

Job description

An ideal candidate lives and breathes math and statistics, enjoys digging into data, loves solving hard, ambiguous challenges and ideally has a track record of adding significant, tangible value to trading businesses. Your mission will be to help shape Keyrock’s trading strategies. Tasks:

1. market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi); 
2. researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets; 
3. trading and hedging both cryptocurrencies and FX.

Background and experience

As a Quantitative Trading researcher, you have strong analytical capabilities and are fully comfortable with financial markets and trading algorithms in order books. You are/have:

1. 3+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm
2. Strong attention to detail
3. Good communicator
4. Programming skills in Python
5. Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms
6. Desirable: a master-level degree or PhD in a relevant hard science eg. maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quant finance etc.
7. A passion for algorithmic trading
8. The ability to take ownership of a project while collaborating on it with colleagues
9. Fluency in English

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• Communications Skills
• Python
• Team Collaboration