VP, Quantitative Developer
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As a VP, Quantitative Developer at Galaxy Digital, you join the Crypto trading desk to design, implement, and optimize market making and quantitative trading strategies. You collaborate with traders, quants, and other developers, bringing a strong background in software development, quantitative analysis, and financial markets, particularly in FX and Crypto trading domains.
What you'll do
- Develop, implement, and maintain high-performance trading algorithms and models for Crypto markets
- Collaborate with traders and quantitative analysts to understand trading strategies and translate them into efficient code
- Optimize existing trading systems for speed, reliability, and scalability
- Integrate new data sources and ensure data integrity for accurate model input
- Monitor and troubleshoot live trading systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
- Stay current with advancements in quantitative finance, software development, and Crypto markets
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes and tools
- Champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes
- Leverage AI tools such as generative AI, automation platforms, and data copilots to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality
What you bring
- Experience working in algorithmic trading environments in Java
- Knowledge of tick data analytics and real-time market data processing
- Familiarity with cloud-based market access or hybrid deployments
- Proven experience developing and implementing quantitative models and trading algorithms
- Strong programming skills in Java
- Experience with high-frequency and low-latency trading systems
- Experience working on an FX or Cryptocurrency trading desk
- Experience integrating and executing strategies on DeFi platforms, including SOL and ETH
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience in DeFi or crypto
- Experience with market making or market making as a service
- Exposure to regulatory or compliance-driven environments
- Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, or DevOps processes
What we offer
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Employee Resource Groups
- Benefits vary depending on location
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers on-chain infrastructure for institutions, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads, anchored by its Helios campus in Texas with a multi-gigawatt pipeline of over 5.7 GW of potential capacity. Headquartered in New York City, Galaxy has offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Galaxy has 50 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 15 in Engineering, 9 in Legal & Compliance and 8 in Security. 6% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and the Netherlands. 15 were posted in the last 7 days.
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