TL;DR
Quantitative Researcher (DeFi): Building and deploying high-frequency strategies across CEX and DEX landscape with an accent on market microstructure, liquidity provision, and MEV-aware execution. Focus on advanced mathematical fluency in stochastic processes, optimization, and game theory to build and scale production-grade HFT systems in crypto.
Location: Remote CET +-2 hours
Salary: $100k-$150k + PnL
Company
Plexus Resource Solutions is a company which provides job search services.
What you will do
- Design and refine quantitative models for DeFi market-making and HFT liquidity.
- Extract alpha from on-chain and off-chain data sources.
- Map out microstructure dynamics across AMMs, DEX order books, and CEXs.
- Develop custom simulation frameworks and backtesting engines for execution.
- Partner with engineering to turn research into production-ready, low-latency systems.
- Track live strategy performance and pivot based on evolving market conditions.
Requirements
- A background in buy-side, prop trading, or HFT quantitative research.
- Advanced mathematical fluency in stochastic processes, optimization, and game theory.
- Hands-on experience with concentrated liquidity (Uniswap v3/v4), JIT, and the block-building process.
- Strong coding skills in Python, with a preference for Rust or C++.
- Proven ability to build and scale production-grade HFT systems in crypto.
- A natural intuition for how markets move and how execution systems react.
Nice to have
- Fluent in Russian
Culture & Benefits
- Full Time
- Remote