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OTC Quantitative Developer

A Rust engineering role in the OTC derivatives tech team of a digital asset trading firm. You would implement and maintain pricing, risk and quoting logic that quants design.

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.

Extend the Rust OTC derivatives trading systems
Turn quant-designed pricing, risk and quoting models into production code
Make fragile quant-heavy libraries safer to change
Deliver features for traders including some TypeScript front-end work

What they ask for

Required

5+ years of professional software engineering
Strong Rust
Options or derivatives systems experience (pricing, risk, quoting, booking)
Enough quant to implement pricing and risk models
Production experience in high-stakes systems
Working directly with traders

Preferred

OTC derivatives or options market-making background
Pricing libraries, vol surfaces and Greeks
Front-end, tooling or data pipelines
Small-team experience
C++

Education: Not stated
Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering with derivatives systems exposure
Languages and tools: Rust
TypeScript
C++
Markets: crypto, options

How to prepare

Implement Black-Scholes, Greeks and a vol surface interpolator in Rust
Learn how crypto options are quoted and risk-managed
Study how pricing libraries are structured and tested
Practise explaining technical trade-offs to non-engineers

What to study

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