Junior Quantitative Analyst
Skills & Stack
About the Role
Join Arrakis as a Junior Quantitative Analyst to drive liquidity strategies and improve market-making efficiency in the DeFi space. As a Junior Quantitative Analyst, you will work on analyzing and developing on-chain trading strategies for a decentralized market-making protocol. Your contributions will be vital in establishing Arrakis as the leading decentralized market-making protocol.
About Arrakis
Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. Arrakis believes in a world where every organization, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.
What You'll Do
- 1Analyze and develop on-chain trading strategies
- 2Work with leading DeFi projects to strengthen on-chain liquidity
- 3Keep ahead of the latest developments in quantitative finance, blockchain technology, and Web3 innovations
- 4Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and enhance market-making services
- 5Own client relationships and provide excellent client service by monitoring ongoing market-making activities
- 6Perform data analysis and design analytics dashboards with on-chain data
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years of experience in Quantitative Trading & Research, with a focus on derivatives arbitrage, market-making, and high-frequency trading strategies
- Deep expertise in on-chain & off-chain market dynamics, including arbitrage across CEX & DEX platforms, funding rate inefficiencies, and PnL optimization
- Proficient in Python & SQL, with experience in building quantitative tools, bots, and analytics dashboards for trading performance monitoring
- Extensive experience working with REST & WebSocket APIs, actively integrating and analyzing exchange data for strategy execution
- Extensive experience managing and optimizing trading portfolios, ensuring strong risk-adjusted performance through data-driven decision-making
- Proven ability to develop and refine quantitative strategies, improving market-making efficiency and identifying profitable arbitrage opportunities
- Analytical mindset with a strong focus on PnL optimization, investigating discrepancies and enhancing capital efficiency across trading operations
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