pod.network - Quantitative Markets Engineer

Remote - EMEA3w ago

Remote EMEA Cryptocurrency Quant Financial Quantitative Analyst Rust C++Python Go Vault

Requirements

• Deep understanding of market microstructure: order books, matching, derivatives (especially perpetuals), margin, liquidation, and funding mechanics. • Hands-on experience in market making, quant trading, or designing/operating exchange and trading systems. • Ability to translate markets knowledge into production code (e.g. Python, Rust, C++, or Go) and reason about correctness and edge cases under live trading conditions. • DeFi / on-chain trading experience: AMMs, perp DEXs, vault strategies, prediction markets. • Experience with low-latency or high-frequency trading systems. • Blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain Pod's core trading modules: order book, perpetuals engine, risk engine, and leverage/margin systems. • Configure and tune market parameters - funding, fees, tick/lot sizes, margin tiers, liquidation thresholds - as you launch and operate new markets. • Design and ship novel on-chain financial primitives: vaults, proprietary/protocol AMMs, prediction markets, and other derivatives. • Build and operate Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to deepen liquidity. • Monitor live markets for health, risk, and anomalies, iterating on parameters and safeguards in response to real flow. • Work closely with research on incentive design, batch auction mechanics, and settlement models.

Benefits

• Ownership of one of the most consequential surfaces at Pod, with direct impact on how global markets clear. • Competitive salary plus meaningful upside. • A high-impact role in an ambitious, fast-moving team working alongside strong researchers and top market makers. • Travel opportunities and thought-leadership visibility in the crypto community. • We are building Pod Network, a Layer-1 for open markets. Orders clear in frequent batch auctions, so the best price wins, not the fastest connection. Anyone can launch a market, its rules enforced by code, and anyone, anywhere can trade on it 24/7. We are backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap.