Quantitative Researcher - Digital Assets Liquidity (EMEA Remote)

About Keyrock

Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.

Today, we rock with over 180 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels and Singapore, also soon to be Paris, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

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:

• market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi);

• researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets;

• 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:

• 3+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm

• Strong attention to detail

• Good communicator

• Programming skills in Python

• Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms

• Desirable: a master-level degree or PhD in a relevant hard science eg. maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quant finance etc.

• A passion for algorithmic trading

• The ability to take ownership of a project while collaborating on it with colleagues

• Fluency in English

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, acts with ownership and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or Contractor).

• Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely

• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence

As an employer we are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, and hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

https://keyrock.com/careers/