Quant Trader (DeFi)

As a Quant Trader at GSR, you will help drive the firm's trading activity across decentralized markets, focusing on performance, risk management, and opportunity identification. Working alongside DeFi engineers and researchers, you will leverage GSR's infrastructure and market connectivity across liquidity provisioning, principal trading, and yield-generation strategies. Prior crypto or DeFi experience is beneficial but not required.

What you'll do

• Manage and improve trading strategies across decentralized venues and protocols
• Monitor trading performance, market conditions, and risk exposures
• Identify trading opportunities and areas for strategy improvement
• Support liquidity provisioning, principal trading, and yield-generation activity
• Assess new venues, protocols, and trading opportunities
• Share insights that inform trading decisions and strategic direction

What you bring

• Minimum 1 year of professional trading experience, ideally in complex or less liquid markets
• Strong commercial judgment, risk awareness, and decision-making ability under pressure
• Ability to use data to test ideas and improve trading performance
• Coding ability, with experience using programming to analyse data or support trading decisions
• Interest in DeFi, crypto market structure, and on-chain trading
• A degree in a technical or quantitative subject, or equivalent practical experience

What we offer

• Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement planning
• 30 days of holiday
• Free lunches when in the office
• Hybrid working pattern across global offices in London, the US, Singapore, Zug, and Malaga
• Regular town halls, team lunches, offsites, and social events
• Corporate and Social Responsibility program including charity matching and volunteer days
• Immigration and relocation support where required

About GSR

GSR is crypto's capital markets partner, delivering institutional-grade market making, OTC trading, and strategic venture capital. With over a decade of specialized expertise, GSR bridges traditional finance and digital assets, connecting teams with liquidity, market access, and insights to build at scale.