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Quant Trader (DeFi)

A trading role covering decentralised markets at a crypto market maker. You run and improve strategies in liquidity provision, principal trading and yield generation alongside DeFi engineers and researchers.

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.

Manage and tune strategies on decentralised venues
Track performance, market conditions and risk exposures
Evaluate new protocols and venues for opportunities
Feed market-structure insights back into trading decisions

What they ask for

Required

At least 1 year of professional trading
Sound commercial judgement and risk awareness
Using data to test trading ideas
Coding ability for data analysis
Interest in DeFi and on-chain trading

Preferred

Crypto or DeFi experience

Education: Technical or quantitative degree, or equivalent practical experience
Experience: At least 1 year of professional trading, ideally in complex or less liquid markets
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Learn how automated market makers price and where liquidity providers lose
Analyse on-chain data for a pool and measure fees against impermanent loss
Study risk in less liquid markets, such as slippage and gas costs
Write a short analysis of a protocol's trading opportunity

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.