Quantitative Researcher - Digital Assets Liquidity (EMEA Remote)

Responsibilities

• Market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi)
• Researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets
• Trading and hedging both cryptocurrencies and FX
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and quantitative traders to support market-making and proprietary trading initiatives

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communicator
• Programming skills in Python
• Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms
• Fluency in English
• Passion for algorithmic trading
• Strong analytical and data skills
• Comfortable in financial markets and order book trading algorithms

Preferred Qualifications

• Master-level degree or PhD in maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quantitative finance, or related field
• Experience with both CeFi and DeFi market environments
• Experience in high-frequency or mid-frequency trading

Benefits

• A competitive salary package
• Flexible working hours and opportunity to work remotely
• Autonomy in time management
• Entrepreneurial experience within an excellence-driven team
• Inclusive and merit-based work environment

About the Company

Since 2017, Keyrock has grown into a leading digital asset market maker with 180+ team members hailing from 42 nationalities. Predominantly remote, Keyrock has hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore, and soon Paris. The company is active on more than 80 exchanges, offering services including market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading. Keyrock is also recognized for pioneering Rust algorithmic trading, supporting Web3 startups, and contributing to ecosystem research and governance.

As an equal opportunity employer, Keyrock values diversity and bases hiring and promotion on merit and performance. Background checks are required for all hires.