Quant Developer

The role

Depending on your background and interests, you'll join one of our vault strategy teams. Our strategies span lending and credit curation, cross-chain yield aggregation, structured products, RWAs, and more. Teams own the full strategy lifecycle: research and protocol due diligence, strategy design and backtesting, allocation and rebalancing engines, onchain execution and optimization, and 24/7 monitoring of live positions. You own strategies end-to-end and are accountable for their performance, safety, and uptime.

What you'll do

• Design and ship vault strategies: take a strategy from thesis and design doc through implementation, simulation, deployment, and live operation — RWAs, leveraged lending, yield aggregation, cross-protocol allocation, perpetuals, prediction markets, and new product types we haven't built yet.

• Optimize strategies: signals research, execution optimization, gas-aware rebalancing across tokens and chains, liquidity and duration management.

• Run protocol and asset due diligence: evaluate new protocols, collateral assets, and chains for inclusion in strategies — solvency mechanics, oracle design, redemption paths, liquidity depth, and more.

• Own risk parameters: supply caps, LLTV settings, concentration limits, VaR-based exposure models, and automated de-risking logic that pulls positions when conditions deteriorate.

• Integrate new protocols and chains: build and validate adapters for lending markets, DEX aggregators, and bridges; verify strategy behavior against forked-chain simulation before capital touches it.

• Monitor what you build: extend our risk-monitoring and alerting systems, define the conditions that page someone, and participate in the on-call rotation for the strategies you own.

• Support launches and clients: partner with growth, capital markets, and client teams on new vault and strategy launches.

• What you bring

• A track record of building quantitative systems that run in production — algorithmic trading, portfolio optimization, market making, or risk systems at a trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto-native company. This is often 2–8 years of experience, but we weight what you've built over years on a résumé.

• You write the code behind your strategies. Strong Python and solid software-engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, and the judgment to build durable abstractions rather than one-off scripts. This is a hands-on, quantitative role — not a discretionary trading seat.

• Applied quantitative skills: optimization, statistics, and simulation, and the instinct to validate models against real data before trusting them.

• Comfort with data infrastructure: SQL and experience building or consuming data pipelines.

• Production ownership: you've debugged live systems under pressure and understand that a strategy managing other people's money has to be correct, monitored, and recoverable.

• Clear technical communication.

• Bonus points

• Hands-on DeFi experience: lending protocols, ERC-4626 vaults, AMMs, or oracle systems — as a builder or a sophisticated user.

• Solidity / EVM literacy: reading protocol contracts, forked-chain simulation (anvil), or writing adapters; non-EVM experience (e.g., Solana) also valued.

• On-chain operational experience: multisig workflows, transaction submission and signing infrastructure, bridging.

• TypeScript, and familiarity with a modern data stack (e.g., BigQuery, Dagster, Hex, GCP/Kubernetes).

• Experience with risk modeling for volatile or thinly-traded assets: VaR, liquidation modeling, stress testing.

• Who thrives here

• Wants end-to-end ownership — research, code, deployment, and the pager — not a hand-off between research and engineering.

• Comfortable that crypto markets don't close. Strategy owners take on-call seriously, and the occasional market-event night is part of the job; we staff and rotate to keep it sustainable.

• Operates well in ambiguity: can take "we should have a strategy for X" and return a scoped design, not a list of questions — and is comfortable in a fast-moving space where priorities and team structure evolve.

• Holds a genuine risk view and voices it — including "we shouldn't do this" when the analysis says so.

• Pragmatic about shipping: balances rigor against client timelines without cutting corners on safety.

• Naturally curious about digital assets and DeFi. Deep crypto experience is not required — curiosity and strong quant fundamentals are.

• Benefits & perks

• Remote first — work from anywhere in the US & Canada

• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees

• $1,000 WFH stipend

• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone