We are seeking an Associate Quantitative Developer to join our Markets team at our crypto exchange. This role is critical to maintaining efficient, competitive, and well-priced markets across spot and derivatives trading platforms. You will be responsible for building high-performance, low-latency market-making systems that support trading and liquidity operations. This is a hands-on quantitative development role working closely with trading and quant teams in a fast-paced, 24/7 market workplace.
Key Responsibilities
- Connectivity Integration Build, maintain, and optimize high-performance API connectors (REST, WebSocket) for major crypto exchanges. Manage and extend integrations with third-party platforms while ensuring data integrity and low-latency execution. Handle exchange-specific requirements such as authentication, request signing, and rate limits.
- Signal Service Architecture Design and implement signal generation services that transform raw market data into actionable inputs for pricing and hedging algorithms. Ensure the signal pipeline is deterministic,
scalable, and capable of processing high-throughput market updates. Improve real-time data ingestion, processing, and distribution across trading systems.
- Proprietary Engine Development Contribute to building the firm s in-house low-latency market-making engine. Develop modular components including: Order Management Systems (OMS) Risk-checking modules Automated quoting systems Support pricing, hedging, and trading infrastructure used by the markets team.
- Infrastructure Deployment Collaborate with DevOps teams to optimize server configurations and deployment environments. Support co-location and latency-sensitive infrastructure setups. Maintain deployment pipelines ensuring stable production environments and zero-downtime releases.
- Latency Performance Optimization Conduct deep tick-to-trade latency analysis across network, OS, and application layers. Profile and optimize quoting and h