Quantitative Developer - Paradex

Paradex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Generous PTO: Unlimited vacation

Full Benefits

No manager 1:1s and no bullshit

Job summary

Paradex is actively expanding its options platform, seeking a Quantitative Developer to design and build the Options Pricing Infrastructure. You’ll architect high-fidelity, low-latency pricing and market data systems across 250+ markets, directly impacting production-scale crypto derivatives.

You will bridge rigorous financial engineering with high-performance backend systems, owning your domain end-to-end in a fast-paced, no-nonsense environment.

Qualifications

• Strong production experience building low-latency, high-throughput backend services.
• Experience with time-series databases and market data infrastructure.
• Experience with exchange or trading firm systems.

Responsibilities

• Market Data Systems: Build and maintain data infra for pricing, risk, and research with real-time tick capture, normalization, historical storage, and low-latency replay.
• Pricing Infrastructure: Design and implement pricing models for derivatives with low latency and observability.
• Trading Algorithms: Contribute to development, improvement and monitoring of strategies underpinning the protocol vault.
• Risk and Analytics Backend: Implement services that monitor risk in real time across the platform.
• Research-to-Production Pipeline: Transition models from research to production with backtesting and controlled deployment.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Data Infrastructure

Trading Systems

Options Experience (preferred)

Ownership

Tools

Time-series databases

Kafka

Redpanda

NATS

Job description

RANKED 12th BEST STARTUP EMPLOYER SINGAPORE

TECHINASIA Awards 2026

Paradex is a high-performance decentralized exchange incubated by Paradigm.co-crypto’s largest institutional liquidity network, handling up to 40% of global crypto options volume with over $1 Trillion in total venue volume traded.

Our parent company, Paradigm, is backed by a $400M Series A valuation from top-tier investors. Leveraging this institutional foundation, we build core trading infrastructure for Paradex with zero legacy constraints and a relentless focus on clean, maintainable architecture. Since launch, Paradex has facilitated $220+ billion in cumulative trading volume and holds over $100 million in Total Value Locked across 250+ markets.

We are actively expanding our options platform and looking for a Quantitative Developer to design, architect, and build our Options Pricing Infrastructure from the ground up.

How We Work:

We have no product managers, no middle management, and no 1:1s. No bullshit. Just clean, low-latency code. You’ll work directly with our leadership and an elite team of builders in the trenches every day, owning your domain end-to-end.

Fair Warning: This is an intense, high-bar environment. We will push you hard, but you’ll grow faster than anywhere else and do some of the most meaningful, high-impact work of your career on the frontlines of DeFi

Quick Facts

• $260+ Billion Lifetime Volume (Paradex)

• $1+ Trillion Lifetime Volume (Paradigm.co)

• Paradex is committed to building transparently in public key platform stats

Your Mission

As a Quantitative Developer, you will be a primary architect of the pricing and market data infrastructure that powers Paradex. You won't just be maintaining a platform; you will be solving one of the hardest problems in crypto derivatives: building high-fidelity, low-latency pricing, risk, and quoting systems that operate reliably across 250+ markets at production scale.

You will bridge the gap between rigorous financial engineering and the high-performance backend systems required to deliver it.

What You’ll Do

• Market Data Systems: Build and maintain the data infrastructure that supports pricing, risk, and research, including real-time tick capture, cross-venue normalization, historical storage, and low-latency replay for backtesting.

• Pricing Infrastructure: Design and implement pricing models for derivatives. Ensure correctness, low latency, and observability.

• Trading Algorithms: Contribute to the development, improvement and monitoring of the strategies underpinning the protocol vault

• Risk and Analytics Backend: Implement services that monitor risk in real time across the platform.

• Research-to-Production Pipeline: Transition models from research environments into production services capable of handling live order flow. Apply rigorous backtesting, controlled deployment, and ongoing monitoring.

What You Bring

• Backend Engineering: Strong production experience building low-latency, high-throughput backend services, with demonstrated ability to operate and debug them under load.

• Data Infrastructure: Experience with time-series databases, message buses (such as Kafka, Redpanda, or NATS), and the operational realities of high-volume market data.

• Trading Systems: Prior experience working on or alongside production trading systems at an exchange, proprietary trading firm, market maker, HFT firm, or comparable crypto-native venue.

• Options Experience (preferred): Knowledge or direct experience with options pricing, volatility surface construction or options market making.

• Ownership: Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for a domain end to end, with limited specification or supervision.

Your Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Pay: Top-tier compensation in the industry.

• Generous PTO: Unlimited vacation.

• Full Benefits: Comprehensive packages tailored by country.

• No manager 1:1s and no bullshit meetings.