Quant Trader, HFT for Digital Assets — Hybrid Remote

Fourstroke; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Flexible hybrid setup (up to 2 days re

Trendy Amsterdam office

28 paid holidays + 1st Class train sub

Job summary

Fourstroke, an Amsterdam-based quantitative trading firm operating across global digital asset markets, develops and operates systematic market-making strategies by combining research, engineering, and machine learning into a single integrated platform.

Since 2021 we have built a fully automated trading operation with a lean, highly technical team. We are looking for a talented quant trader to join us and impact strategy performance and execution across global crypto markets.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quantitative trading or research, ideally in market making or HFT.
• Strong foundations in probability, statistics, time series, and optimisation.
• Strong Python and large-dataset skills (Databricks).
• Strong trading intuition and practical knowledge of market microstructure, execution, liquidity, exchange dynamics, and trading-risk.
• Curious about AI-native research tools and eager to work in small, highly technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Research and improve systematic market-making and short-horizon strategies.
• Analyse high-frequency data, order books, fills, and execution quality.
• Identify new signals and validate them with robust statistical methods.
• Build backtests and simulations that reflect live market conditions.
• Turn research into production trading logic with our engineers.
• Monitor live strategies and optimize execution, parameters, and risk.
• Support portfolio construction, new markets, and day-to-day trading operations.

Skills

Python

Statistics

Time series

Optimization

Trading intuition

Education

BSc / MSc in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Fourstroke, an Amsterdam-based quantitative trading firm operating across global digital asset markets, develops and operates systematic market-making strategies by combining research, engineering, and machine learning into a single integrated platform.

Since 2021 we have built a fully automated trading operation with a lean, highly technical team. We are looking for a talented quant trader to join us and impact strategy performance and execution across global crypto markets.