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DeFi Trading Analyst

A technical analyst role on a new Dubai trading desk covering early-stage protocols and venues. It sits between tech and trading, handling onboarding, vault risk tooling and opportunity sourcing.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Assess and integrate new trading venues and protocols
Build risk monitoring for Morpho vault curation (utilisation, collateral, oracles, liquidations)
Automate routine desk checks
Track new listings, yield sources and pricing gaps and propose trades
Manage the desk's technical backlog

What they ask for

Required

Degree in CS, engineering, quant finance or maths
Strong Python
Basic Solidity reading
Exchange API or DeFi protocol experience
Crypto markets: spot, perps, AMMs and lending
Fluent English

Preferred

TypeScript
Rust (reading)

Education: Degree in computer science, engineering, quantitative finance, maths or similar
Experience: Not stated; hands-on exchange API or DeFi work expected
Languages and tools: Python
Solidity
TypeScript
Rust
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Build a monitor for a DeFi lending market tracking utilisation and liquidation risk
Read a lending protocol's contracts and note oracle and collateral risks
Learn perpetual funding, basis and AMM pricing mechanics
Write Python scripts that call exchange APIs and log results

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Flowdesk and doesn’t handle applications.