Quantitiative Researcher - Digital Assets Market Making (Remote)

Keyrock was founded in 2017 and has quickly grown from 3 to over 160 people today. As an industry recognized liquidity provider and market maker, Keyrock is a leading European creator of algorithmic
trading technologies in the digital asset space. With VC backing including Series B investment from Ripple, a constantly expanding global client base, and revenues growth 13x in 2022, Keyrock is one of Belgium’s fastest-growing fintech companies.
We’re currently active on over 80 exchanges and count numerous marketplaces and asset issuers among our clients, including some of the best-known companies in the digital assets space. Keyrock's beating heart is its technical team filled with crypto and DeFi natives, software engineers, digital scientists and academics, who themselves are supported by university professors, industry leading
experts and a strong management team. Over the years, Keyrock has become a company that is both idealistic and practical.
What We Are Looking For ...
A dynamic, experienced Quantitative Researcher to work in collaboration with our engineers, data scientists and quantitative traders to support our low- or high-liquidity market-making and proprietary trading initiatives. An ideal candidate lives and breathes math and statistics, enjoys digging into data, loves solving hard, ambiguous challenges and ideally has a track record of adding significant, tangible value to trading businesses. Your mission will be to help shape Keyrock’s trading strategies.
Research at Keyrock is split between high- and low-liquidity quantitative research, and the successful candidate will be expected to join one of these teams as an experienced researcher. High-liquidity: market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi); researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets; trading and hedging both cryptocurrencies and FX. Low-liquidity: market-making LL assets (CeFi and DeFi); pricing of highly illiquid assets; tokenomics and algorithmic game theory; options hedging and constraints on cryptocurrencies spanning new and emerging tokens and industry partnerships.
What You Will Be Doing

• Working with our algo-devs to productionise your trading strategies
• Building models to create new trading strategies
• Structuring and implementing algorithmic trading strategies
• Monitoring market performance
• Backtesting algorithmic trading strategies
• Software development and implementation
• Market analysis

Competencies, Skills And Experience
As a quantitative trading researcher, you have strong analytical capabilities and are fully comfortable with financial markets and trading algorithms in order books. You are/have:

• A passion for algorithmic trading
• Desirable: a master-level degree or PhD in a relevant hard science eg. maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quant finance etc.
• Programming skills in Python
• Good communicator
• 3+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm
• Fluency in English
• Strong attention to detail
• The ability to take ownership of a project while collaborating on it with colleagues
• Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms

Our philosophy
We believe the most important aspect of our recruitment process is self-awareness: we are looking for people who have a clear understanding of themselves and what they are looking for in their professional career. That means that we expect to work with people who not only have the right skills, but who have also made the conscious decision to look for a company in our industry and with our characteristics.
Our offer

• A competitive salary package, including benefits that you choose and manage according to your needs and those of your family (car/bike, meal vouchers, phone and internet subscription, health insurance, 25 days off, etc.)
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence who all receive stock options from the first year
• A ton of fun in a thriving and multicultural environment, with colleagues enjoying regular team building activities
• Complete autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely