Crypto Quantitative Trader

Crypto Quantitative Trader
Company: Reliant HR Consultancy & Facility Management WLL
Location: Remote
Employment: Full-time
Compensation: $240,000 – $300,000 USD per year (base), depending on experience; performance bonus may apply
About the role
Reliant is hiring a Crypto Quantitative Trader to design, execute, and improve systematic and discretionary trading strategies across spot, perpetuals, and related digital-asset markets. You’ll combine market microstructure knowledge with rigorous research to generate and manage risk-adjusted returns.
Responsibilities
Research, backtest, and deploy quant crypto strategies (signal research, execution, risk controls)
Monitor live books; manage inventory, basis, funding, and liquidation risk
Improve execution quality (slippage, latency, venue selection, fee optimization)
Build and maintain research notebooks, dashboards, and performance attribution
Partner with engineering on data pipelines, order routing, and monitoring alerts
Document strategy assumptions, failure modes, and kill-switch criteria
Report PnL, risk metrics, and drawdowns clearly to leadership
Requirements
3–7+ years in quantitative trading, prop trading, or market-making; 1+ year in crypto markets
Strong skills in Python (or similar) for research and automation
Solid grasp of derivatives (perps/futures), funding, basis, and crypto market structure
Experience with risk management: position limits, VaR/stress thinking, scenario analysis
Comfortable making decisions under volatility with clear risk discipline
Excellent written communication for research notes and incident postmortems
Fluent English
Nice-to-haves
C++/Rust or low-latency execution experience
Experience with OTC, options, or cross-exchange arb
Familiarity with on-chain data as a signal source

Work arrangement
Yes