Quant R&D
Quant Developer (Senior)
Experience5+ years
LocationDubai
EmploymentFull-time
We're hiring a senior quant developer to own the full strategy lifecycle — from research to live production — building low-latency execution infrastructure and alpha signals for crypto and derivatives markets.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate low-latency execution systems (OMS/EMS) and exchange connectivity
- Research, prototype, and productionize alpha signals and systematic trading strategies
- Build and maintain high-performance backtesting and simulation frameworks
- Optimize execution algorithms (TWAP, VWAP, POV, Implementation Shortfall)
- Improve strategy performance through market microstructure, liquidity, and transaction cost analysis (TCA)
- Monitor live PnL, risk exposures, and system health; respond to incidents
- Own strategy capacity and risk sizing as part of production ownership
Requirements
- 5+ years building production trading systems at an HFT, prop firm, hedge fund, or crypto market maker
- Expert in C++ or Rust, with strong production Python
- Deep understanding of exchange connectivity (FIX/REST/WebSocket), order types, and matching engines
- Solid foundation in probability, statistics, time-series, and stochastic processes
- Proven ownership of live PnL on real-money strategies
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, CI/CD, observability, concurrency
Nice to have
- Experience trading crypto derivatives (perps, futures, options)
- Expertise in market making, statistical arbitrage, or HFT alpha
- Deep knowledge of major exchange microstructure (Binance, OKX, Bybit, Deribit, CME)
- Experience with GPU/FPGA acceleration or kernel-bypass networking (DPDK, Solarflare)
- Contributions to open-source trading or data infrastructure
- Graduate degree in a quantitative field (CS, Math, Stats, Physics)