Quant (DeFi)
Arrakis Finance provides onchain market-making services and infrastructure. Its Arrakis Pro product actively manages self-custodial concentrated liquidity for token issuers across DEXs, supporting project tokens, yield-bearing assets, commodities, and equities.
Funding
About Arrakis Finance
Arrakis Finance operates onchain market-making infrastructure for token issuers. Arrakis Pro combines self-custodial vaults, modular smart contracts, and an offchain strategy system to continuously rebalance concentrated DEX liquidity, adjust fees, and manage inventory within issuer-defined parameters. It serves token issuers and teams launching or operating onchain markets, including stablecoin issuers, yield-bearing assets, and real-world asset markets.
Skills
About the Role
You will research emerging DeFi innovations and develop proof-of-concepts for market-making strategies and tooling. You will design, implement and refine liquidity provisioning strategies, perform quantitative analysis of on-chain trading activity, and produce data-driven presentations. You will own client relationships, support onboarding and account management, respond to custom client requests, and collaborate with engineers, data scientists and business development to improve algorithms and production tooling.
Requirements
- At least 2 years professional experience in trading, quantitative finance, or market making
- Experience in quantitative analysis and data science, preferably on-chain data/DeFi
- Web3 native with regular use of DeFi protocols
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with Python or Rust
- Hands-on software development experience in a quantitative finance environment
- Communications and presentation skills for mixed stakeholder audiences
- Comfortable in fast-paced environments with ambitious targets
- Well-organised with strong time management skills
- Bonus: Rust
- Bonus: Dune Analytics
- Bonus: Experience working in a successful DeFi protocol
Responsibilities
- Research emerging DeFi protocols and innovations
- Develop proof-of-concepts for market-making strategies and tooling
- Design and refine liquidity provisioning strategies
- Perform quantitative analysis of on-chain trading activity
- Aggregate and analyze on-chain data to inform decisions
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and business development
- Own and manage client relationships and onboarding
- Monitor market-making activities and respond to client requests
- Create internal presentations and data-driven recommendations
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Work with the founders in person in Switzerland
- Opportunity to travel to industry events
- In-person offsites worldwide
- Fully remote team members across multiple cities
