Quantitative Researcher - Digital Assets Liquidity (EMEA Remote)

Keyrock; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital asset company in London is seeking an experienced Quantitative Researcher to support their trading strategies. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of quantitative research experience and strong programming skills in Python. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and the ability to work remotely. A passion for algorithmic trading is essential.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Flexible working hours

Opportunity to work remotely

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm.
• Desirable: experience in building or researching trading algorithms.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Support market-making and proprietary trading initiatives.
• Research and build trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies.
• Trade and hedge cryptocurrencies and FX.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Programming in Python

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Algorithmic trading

Education

Master's or PhD in a relevant hard science

Job description

Overview

Keyrock is a leading player in the digital asset space, with global teams and hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore, and plans for Paris. We trade on more than 80 exchanges and offer market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks. We are active in developing with Rust for algorithmic trading, supporting Web3 startups via our Accelerator Program, and contributing to DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols through liquidity injections, research, and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we are actively building the future of digital assets.

What we are looking for

A dynamic, experienced Quantitative Researcher to collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and quantitative traders to support our market-making and proprietary trading initiatives.

Job description

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.

• 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.

Background 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:

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

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals. We want those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package
• Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team in pursuit of excellence

As an employer we are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds and hire based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

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