Junior HFT Quant Trader (Crypto)

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 role suits a recent graduate who prefers to build something of their own rather than climb a ladder, with pay tied directly to 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 repeat the idea generation phase quickly
• 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

• 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 with a deliberately low base salary; most earnings come from a share of the net profit your strategies generate, with no ceiling on total compensation
• All compensation in USD
• Fully remote, worldwide

About Perry Technologies

Perry Technologies is a remote-based proprietary trading team in digital assets. They trade their own capital across centralised exchanges and decentralised venues, operating a small, flat structure where everyone owns their strategies end to end.