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Quantitative Developer - Digital Assets | High-Frequency Trading
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Quantitative Developer - Digital Assets | High-Frequency Trading
About the Firm We are working exclusively with a leading proprietary trading firm specialising in high-frequency market making across digital asset markets. Founded by professionals from some of the world's top electronic trading firms, the team includes talent from elite prop desks, global technology companies and systematic trading operations. Based in Dubai with a growing team the firm is scaling aggressively and looking for exceptional quant talent to join their operation.
The Role As Quantitative Developer, you will own the research-to-production pipeline — translating quantitative models and alpha signals into live, production-grade trading systems. Working closely with quant researchers and traders, you will build and maintain the systematic trading infrastructure that powers live HFT strategies in crypto markets.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain production Python trading systems and research infrastructure
- Build high-performance data pipelines, backtesting frameworks and strategy execution layers
- Collaborate with QRs and QTs to productionise alpha signals into live deployments
- Optimise execution, latency and system performance across the trading stack
- Own live deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement of systematic strategies
- Contribute to research tooling, analytics platforms and feature engineering pipelines
Requirements
- Proven background at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm or market maker — non-negotiable
- Expert-level Python: NumPy, Pandas, asyncio, Numba or equivalent performance tooling
- Demonstrated experience building production trading systems end-to-end
- Strong understanding of market microstructure, execution dynamics and latency
- Experience with backtesting infrastructure, walk-forward validation and risk frameworks
- Crypto trading experience is a strong advantage
- Dubai-based or genuinely committed to relocating
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What's on Offer
- $220,000+ base salary, highly competitive overall package
- High-ownership, high-impact role at a firm with genuine trading edge
- Work alongside world-class systematic trading talent in a lean, high-performance environment
Location: Dubai, UAE (preferred) — initial remote considered; relocation expected Type: Permanent | Full-Time
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