Arrakis Finance
Senior Quant Engineer
NEWZurich, SwitzerlandFull-timeGlobal
📊 Mid🏠 Hybrid
ActivePosted within the last 30 days
Job Description
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You will design and build market-making engines, including pricing, quoting, inventory management, and hedging logic. You will develop and maintain real-time risk and exposure management systems with limits, monitoring frameworks, and kill-switch mechanisms. You will own architectural decisions for performance, scalability, and system resilience, integrate trading logic with on-chain protocols, and improve tooling, workflows, and deployment safety.
Requirements
- ●Bridge research and development (not a pure researcher nor a pure developer)
- ●Deep hands-on experience building order book market making strategies, specifically passive maker-oriented strategies
- ●Ability to model, build, backtest, deploy, and iterate trading systems end to end
- ●Ability to articulate and evaluate market making model approaches such as Avellaneda-Stoikov and machine learning and their trade-offs
- ●Based in or willing to relocate to Zürich area (3 days per week in office required)
Responsibilities
- ●Design and build market-making engines, including pricing, quoting, inventory management, and hedging logic
- ●Develop and maintain real-time risk and exposure management systems, including limits, monitoring frameworks, and kill-switch mechanisms
- ●Own architectural decisions related to performance, scalability, and system resilience
- ●Collaborate with on-chain and protocol teams to integrate trading logic into broader infrastructure
- ●Improve tooling, workflows, and deployment safety to enable faster iteration without compromising control
Benefits & Perks
- ●Work with the founders in person in Switzerland
- ●Travel opportunities to industry events
- ●In-person offsites worldwide
Tech Stack
ResiliencehedgingAvellaneda-Stoikovlimitsquotingprotocol integrationbacktestingalgorithmic tradingorder bookmonitoring