Quant Trader (DeFi)
GSR is a global digital-asset capital-markets firm providing crypto market making, OTC trading, execution, treasury, derivatives, advisory, and investment services.
About GSR
Founded in 2013, GSR operates across digital-asset markets as a dealer, counterparty, and liquidity provider. Its offering includes market making across centralized and decentralized venues, systematic and high-touch OTC trading, algorithmic execution, treasury solutions, derivatives and structured products, digital-asset advisory, and venture backing for crypto founders, institutions, token issuers, and exchanges.
Skills
About the Role
You will drive trading activity across decentralized markets, focusing on performance, risk management, and opportunity identification. You will work with DeFi engineers and researchers, leveraging infrastructure to support liquidity provisioning, principal trading, and yield-generation strategies. Prior crypto or DeFi experience is beneficial but not required.
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of professional trading experience, ideally in complex or less liquid markets.
- Strong commercial judgment, risk awareness, and decision-making 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.
- Degree in a technical or quantitative subject, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Stay close to market structure and protocol developments.
- Assess new venues, protocols, and trading opportunities.
- Share insights that inform trading decisions and strategic direction.
Benefits
- A collaborative and transparent company culture founded on Integrity, Innovation, and Performance.
- Benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, retirement planning, 30 days of holiday, and 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.