Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organization, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

As a Quantitative Analyst at Arrakis, you will drive our liquidity provisioning strategies, develop quantitative analyses of on-chain trading activities and own client relationships to deliver tailored market-making services. You’ll also work with our business development team on client onboarding, account management and enhance our quantitative algorithms with the core development team. Your contributions will be vital in establishing Arrakis as the leading decentralised market-making protocol.

What you’ll accomplish

• Working with some of the leading DeFi projects in web3 to strengthen their on-chain liquidity
• Keep ahead of the latest developments in quantitative finance, blockchain technology, and Web3 innovations to continuously refine and adapt our market making strategies (e.g. upcoming migration to UniswapV4) to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving web3 market-making industry
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with software engineers, data scientists and business development representatives to refine, enhance and develop the best market making service to our clients
• Own customer relationships and provide excellent client service by monitoring the ongoing market-making activities and respond to custom client requests
• Perform data analysis and design Analytics dashboards with on-chain data

Requirements

Our ideal candidate has:

• At least 2 years professional experience in Trading, Quantitative Finance, Market Making (preferred)
• Experience in Quantitative analysis and Data Science preferably on-chain data / DeFi
• Web3 native using DeFi protocols every day/week
• Experience working with JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, Rust
• Bonus: Rust, Dune Analytics
• Some experience with hands on software development in a quantitative finance environment
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments and having ambitious targets
• Excellent communication skills being able to engage in client relationship management and communication
• Well-organised with strong time management skills and a proactive personality
• Bonus: Experience working in a successful DeFi protocol

Benefits

Join an amazing team of industry veterans focused on revolutionising web3 market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido, operating fully remotely with members spanning Zug, Paris, New York, Berlin supported by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• SPICE token package
• Work remotely or with the Founders in person, in Switzerland
• Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events, connecting with key industry players
• Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world