DeFi Quant Trader: On-Chain Alpha & Liquidity

Joseph Anthony Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Joseph Anthony Group in New York, NY invites an experienced DeFi Quant Trader to join our hybrid team. You will identify opportunities and build strategies across on-chain markets, focusing on liquidity, market structure, and alpha generation.

The role requires strong quantitative skills, Python proficiency, and a deep understanding of DeFi protocols. You will collaborate with trading, engineering, and research to deploy scalable, automated trading systems and manage risk.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience trading digital assets in DeFi markets or related electronic markets.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skill set.
• Proficiency in Python and experience working with on-chain data.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a proprietary trading book focused on DeFi, on-chain liquidity, and digital asset markets.
• Research, develop, and execute trading strategies across decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, perpetual venues, and emerging on-chain products.
• Identify opportunities across market-neutral, directional, arbitrage, basis, funding, and liquidity-provision strategies.
• Monitor blockchain activity, token flows, wallet behavior, and protocol incentives to generate actionable trading signals.
• Analyze market microstructure across both centralized and decentralized venues.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build automated trading systems, execution infrastructure, and monitoring tools.
• Evaluate new protocols, liquidity venues, token launches, and ecosystem developments.
• Actively manage portfolio risk, exposure, counterparty risk, and smart contract risk.
• Optimize capital deployment across multiple chains, protocols, and trading strategies.
• Contribute to strategic decisions around new product initiatives and market expansion.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Python

On-chain data

Blockchain analytics

Risk management

Portfolio construction

DeFi knowledge

Market structure

Entrepreneurial mindset

Tools

Blockchain analytics platforms

On-chain data APIs

SQL

Rust

Solidity

Job description

Joseph Anthony Group in New York, NY invites an experienced DeFi Quant Trader to join our hybrid team. You will identify opportunities and build strategies across on-chain markets, focusing on liquidity, market structure, and alpha generation.

The role requires strong quantitative skills, Python proficiency, and a deep understanding of DeFi protocols. You will collaborate with trading, engineering, and research to deploy scalable, automated trading systems and manage risk.