Quantitative Developer - Trading Engine & DeFi

M1 Capital; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Modern office in central Amsterdam

Yearly company trips

Competitive compensation with bonus

Job summary

M1 Capital, a digital asset hedge fund based in Amsterdam, is seeking a Quantitative Developer to extend and scale its trading engine. You will work across research, execution, and on-chain systems to drive alpha generation and fund growth.

Join a small, technically strong team in Amsterdam where your Python and Rust expertise will improve latency, throughput, and the robustness of multi-strategy market-neutral trading strategies.

Qualifications

• 2–7 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python skills with the ability to build and automate systems.
• Solid understanding of performance optimisation.
• Understanding of EVM and/or Solana architecture, DeFi/CeFi, multisig wallets, and transaction workflows.
• Comfort working with financial market data and market microstructure.
• Familiarity with trading infrastructure: execution engines, monitoring, alerting, backtesting, and logging.
• Experience with testing, CI/CD, and writing maintainable, well-documented code.

Responsibilities

• Extend and harden the trading engine across Python/Rust stack.
• Develop and optimise trading algorithms and systematic strategies.
• Profile and optimise latency- and throughput-sensitive components from order routing to market data processing.
• Design and implement modules for order management, risk checks, position tracking, and execution logic.
• Integrate DeFi and CEX systems: design execution pipelines and multisig flows.
• Build and maintain backtesting and simulation tooling for engine validation.
• Build and maintain databases for data storage and real-time algorithm logging.
• Improve testing, monitoring, and observability to catch issues in production.

Skills

Python

Rust

Trading systems

Latency optimization

Research

CI/CD

Debugging

Tools

Python tooling

Rust tooling

CI/CD tooling

Job description

M1 Capital, a digital asset hedge fund based in Amsterdam, is seeking a Quantitative Developer to extend and scale its trading engine. You will work across research, execution, and on-chain systems to drive alpha generation and fund growth.

Join a small, technically strong team in Amsterdam where your Python and Rust expertise will improve latency, throughput, and the robustness of multi-strategy market-neutral trading strategies.