Quantitative Trader

As a Quantitative Trader at Blockchain, you join the Market Making desk in London, helping to run, analyse, and develop the automated strategies that provide liquidity across digital asset exchanges and trading pairs. You will work directly with senior traders, quants, and engineers, taking on strategy ownership as part of a compact and highly successful team. You sit at the intersection of trading, data, and technology, in a role that suits someone with strong quantitative and coding skills, real curiosity about how markets work, and the drive to grow into a fully fledged quantitative trader in a 24/7 market.

What you'll do

• Research and develop market making strategies across CEX and DEX order books and AMM structures to be the most competitive market making desk possible
• Monitor automated market-making strategies across multiple exchanges and trading pairs, flagging issues and escalating where needed
• Learn how strategy parameters work, including spreads, quote sizes, inventory management and risk limits, and adjust them within agreed limits under senior guidance
• Help troubleshoot live trading issues by working with traders and engineers to find root causes
• Run post-trade analysis on execution quality, fill rates, inventory and profitability, and present your findings to the desk
• Write Python and SQL queries to pull, clean and analyse trading and order book data
• Help with backtesting and research into strategy improvements alongside traders and quantitative developers
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports that track trading KPIs such as uptime, spread, depth, volume and P&L
• Use AI tools and automation to make routine monitoring, alerting and reporting more efficient
• Suggest process improvements and new ideas to improve desk performance
• Prepare performance reports that show whether client strategies are meeting agreed KPIs
• Contribute to market colour for clients and internal stakeholders, covering trading flows, liquidity conditions and price movements

What you bring

• 2 to 4 years of experience in trading, quantitative analysis, data analysis or a related field (graduates and internship experience in trading or quant roles are welcome)
• Working proficiency in Python and/or SQL
• Comfort using AI tools, data visualisation and automation to improve workflows
• An intense mindset and eagerness to learn
• Ability to explain findings clearly to traders and engineers

Nice to have

• Exposure to Rust or another systems language

What we offer

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• Mandatory in-office presence four days per week at the London office, with the ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Apple equipment
• ClassPass membership
• Flexible work culture

About Blockchain

Blockchain is a global crypto company with over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, having facilitated over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since its founding in 2011. The company helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency.