Quant jobs / GSR

Quant Developer

A hybrid quant and engineering role at a crypto market maker. You build and refine strategies across market making, proprietary and OTC trading, and help ship them on low-latency systems written in Rust.

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.

Refine market-making and prop strategies using market microstructure analysis
Move strategies into live trading systems, writing Rust where needed
Build analytics and optimisation tools for research
Monitor live strategies and investigate issues in real time

What they ask for

Required

Strong quantitative foundations
Interest in trading systems and limit order books
Performance-aware coding in Python, C++ or Rust
Algorithms and data structures
Willingness to learn Rust

Preferred

Rust experience

Education: Degree in mathematics, physics, computer science or similar, or equivalent practical experience
Experience: Not stated; early-career engineers appear suitable
Languages and tools: Rust
Python
C++
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Build a limit order book simulator and a toy market-making strategy
Work through a Rust fundamentals course and port a numeric routine
Study how crypto exchanges match orders and quote fees
Practise reasoning about pricing and risk in fast markets

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 GSR and doesn’t handle applications.