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Junior Trader – Quant Engineer

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⛩ Asia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Decibel

1 - 10 employees

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Fintech

Decibel is an onchain trading engine built on the Aptos blockchain that offers spot, perpetuals, and vault-based strategies with cross- and multi-collateral margining. It executes order matching, fills, and cancellations transparently on-chain (no off-chain sequencer) to deliver low-latency trading, deep liquidity, and composable DeFi integrations for traders and builders. Decibel plans Mainnet launch with support for institutional integrations, tokenized real-world asset perps, and a native token for governance and ecosystem incentives.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain market making, hedging, and inventory management systems across centralized venues and on-chain markets • Write and ship production-grade code for execution, connectivity, monitoring, and PnL attribution • Analyse trading performance and drive experimentation around parameter tuning, signal generation, and order placement logic, supported by rigorous backtesting • Monitor risk in real time across spot, perpetuals, and on-chain inventory • Tighten the feedback loop between observed PnL and the underlying code • Partner with protocol and product teams on new launches, token listings, and evolving market structures • Work closely with traders, quants, and developers to design, build, and operate trading infrastructure • Keep close watch on live performance and resolve issues in real time

🎯 Requirements

• 2 to 4 years at a TradFi prop, HFT, or top systematic fund in a quant dev, core dev, or trader-engineer seat • Production-grade engineering chops across multiple of the following: Rust, C++, Java, Python • Strong Python plus real systems experience in at least one of Rust, C++, or Java • Hands-on experience with order management systems, smart order routers, or execution engines in a low-latency environment • Comfort reading exchange protocol docs, debugging connectivity at the network layer, and reasoning about latency budgets end-to-end • Multi-venue portfolio and trading system experience • Ability to think clearly about inventory, hedging, and risk across more than one book • Genuine intellectual interest in market microstructure, including order book dynamics, queue position, adverse selection, fee tiers, and maker/taker economics • A portfolio such as GitHub, writeups, side projects, or internal tools that can be discussed and defended in detail • Ability to overlap with at least one of SG, HK, or Tokyo trading hours • Crypto experience is welcome but not required; experience with HFT trading systems is essential • Familiarity with Aptos, Move, Solidity, or the mechanics of any on-chain perps venue is a strong plus • Exposure to options market making is a strong plus • Open source contributions to trading infrastructure, exchange SDKs, or DeFi protocols are a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Insurance premium coverage • Flexible vacation time • Competitive Salary • Protocol Token Grants • Meaningful token allocation • Variable comp tied to delivery and team performance

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