Crypto HFT Quant Trader

Perry Technologies is hiring a junior quant trader to build and run high-frequency crypto strategies across centralised exchanges and on-chain DeFi venues. You will own strategies end to end, from research to live execution, and get paid primarily on what they earn. This suits a recent graduate who would rather build something of their own than climb a ladder, and who wants their pay tied directly to their results.

What you'll do

• Find and test short-horizon alpha in tick, order book and on-chain data: microstructure signals, funding and basis, cross-venue and CEX-DEX price dislocations
• Run rigorous back tests and simulations that model fees, latency, slippage, queue position and gas
• Kill ideas that don't hold up and quickly repeat the idea generation phase
• Build and run market-making, arbitrage and statistical strategies on major centralised exchanges (spot and perpetuals)
• Work with exchange APIs and WebSocket feeds; manage rate limits, order lifecycle and inventory
• Trade on AMMs and on-chain order books across L1s and L2s; handle routing, MEV exposure, gas bidding and private order flow
• Read and reason about smart contracts well enough to understand the venues you trade on and the risks they carry
• Write and maintain production trading code, monitoring and alerting
• Run positions within agreed risk limits, and respond to incidents, exchange outages and depegs
• Report PnL, including what went wrong and why

What you bring

• Fluent or professional English
• A bachelor's or master's degree (graduating 2025-2027) in a quantitative field: math, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering or similar
• Strong probability, statistics and linear algebra, and the judgement to spot overfitting in your own work
• Solid programming in Python, plus working knowledge of at least one systems language (C++, Rust or Go)
• A real interest in markets and crypto, shown through projects, competitions or trading you've done yourself
• An entrepreneurial streak: you take ownership, work without being told what to do next, and treat strategies like a business
• Comfort with risk and variable pay, and the discipline to stick to limits when things go badly
• Clear, honest communication, especially about losses and mistakes

Nice to have

• Personal trading, a bot you've run live, or a public GitHub with relevant work
• Results in quant competitions, olympiads, Kaggle, CTFs or similar
• Experience with Solidity, EVM internals, Solana, or MEV searching
• Low-latency or networking experience: kernel bypass, async I/O, co-location
• Internships at a prop shop, market maker, hedge fund or crypto-native trading firm

What we offer

• Performance-based pay: a low base salary plus a share of the net profit your strategies generate, with no ceiling on earnings
• Fully remote, worldwide
• Compensation structured individually with each candidate and paid in USD

About Perry Technologies

Perry Technologies is a remote-based proprietary trading team in digital assets, trading their own capital across centralised exchanges and decentralised venues. The team is small and flat, so everyone owns their strategies end to end and works directly with other teammates.