On-Chain DeFi Quant Engineer: Liquidity & MEV

Albert Bow Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Albert Bow Limited is seeking a DeFi Quant Engineer to help develop onchain and offchain trading infrastructure across AMMs, orderbooks, and cross-venue connections. The role emphasizes rapid iteration in a high-performance environment and involves working with Uniswap-v3-like pools, L2 rollups, and real-time risk controls.

You will join a fast-paced, technically rigorous team based in London or willing to relocate, contributing to sophisticated liquidity strategies and MEV-aware routing while

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, CS or similar.
• 2+ years of strong programming experience in Rust and Solidity.
• Excellent onchain markets intuition and ability to understand market opportunities.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems for onchain data processing or trading.
• Strong ability to write high-performance, multi-threaded and asynchronous code.
• Experience developing scalable distributed systems and services interacting with L1 and L2 networks.
• Solid understanding of database systems, basic SQL and efficient state/query modelling.
• Comfortable working with Linux/Unix, AWS, Git, Docker and modern DevOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Extend and improve onchain and offchain connectivity across AMMs and orderbook venues, including Uniswap-v3-style pools, Hyperliquid and major CEXs.
• Work across different L2 finalisation models, including optimistic and ZK rollups, fraud-proof and validity-proof windows, and fast versus delayed settlement guarantees.
• Fine-tune and benchmark core pricing and execution engines for strategies across tick-range LP management, DEX-CEX arbitrage, MEV-aware routing and cross-rollup execution.
• Optimise data ingestion and network pathways for ultra-fast access to mempool flows, onchain state diffs and high-frequency market data across L1 and multiple L2 environments.
• Design, develop and validate new components for intelligent liquidity strategies, including JIT liquidity, dynamic range management, trade monitoring and real-time risk controls.
• Build systems that account for the latency, finality and settlement characteristics of different rollup ecosystems.

Skills

Rust

Solidity

Low latency

Distributed systems

Linux

AWS

Docker

SQL basics

Education

Mathematics/CS degree

Tools

Solidity tooling

Docker tooling

Job description

Albert Bow Limited is seeking a DeFi Quant Engineer to help develop onchain and offchain trading infrastructure across AMMs, orderbooks, and cross-venue connections. The role emphasizes rapid iteration in a high-performance environment and involves working with Uniswap-v3-like pools, L2 rollups, and real-time risk controls.

You will join a fast-paced, technically rigorous team based in London or willing to relocate, contributing to sophisticated liquidity strategies and MEV-aware routing while