Junior HFT Quant Trader (Crypto)

Who we are

Perry Technologies is a remote-based proprietary trading team in digital assets. We trade our own capital across centralized exchanges and decentralized venues. We're small and flat, so everyone owns their strategies end to end and works directly with other teammates.

About the role

We're hiring a junior quant trader to build and run high-frequency crypto strategies across centralised exchanges and on-chain DeFi venues. You will own strategies end to end, from research to live execution, and get paid primarily on what they earn.

This is not a seat on a large desk. It suits a recent graduate who would rather build something of their own than climb a ladder, and who wants their pay tied directly to their results.

Location: Remote (worldwide) · Type: Full-time · Level: Junior / new graduate

What you'll do

Research

• Find and test short-horizon alpha in tick, order book and on-chain data: microstructure signals, funding and basis, cross-venue and CEX–DEX price dislocations.

• Run rigorous back tests and simulations that model fees, latency, slippage, queue position and gas.

• Kill ideas that don't hold up, quickly and repeat idea generation phase.

CEX trading

• Build and run market-making, arbitrage and statistical strategies on major centralised exchanges (spot and perpetuals).

• Work with exchange APIs and WebSocket feeds; manage rate limits, order lifecycle and inventory.

DeFi trading

• Trade on AMMs and on-chain order books across L1s and L2s; handle routing, MEV exposure, gas bidding and private order flow.

• Read and reason about smart contracts well enough to understand the venues you trade on and the risks they carry.

Execution and risk

• Write and maintain production trading code, monitoring and alerting.

• Run positions within agreed risk limits, and respond to incidents, exchange outages and depegs.

• Report PnL, including what went wrong and why.

Who we're looking for

We care more about how you think than what's on your CV. You should have:

• Fluent / Professional English is a must.

• A bachelor's or master's (graduating 2025–2027) in a quantitative field: math, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering or similar.

• Strong probability, statistics and linear algebra, and the judgement to spot overfitting in your own work.

• Solid programming in Python, plus working knowledge of at least one systems language (C++, Rust or Go).

• A real interest in markets and crypto, shown through projects, competitions or trading you've done yourself.

• An entrepreneurial streak: you take ownership, work without being told what to do next, and treat strategies like a business.

• Comfort with risk and variable pay, and the discipline to stick to limits when things go badly.

• Clear, honest communication, especially about losses and mistakes.

Nice to have

• Personal trading, a bot you've run live, or a public GitHub with relevant work.

• Results in quant competitions, olympiads, Kaggle, CTFs or similar.

• Experience with Solidity, EVM internals, Solana, or MEV searching.

• Low-latency or networking experience: kernel bypass, async I/O, co-location.

• Internships at a prop shop, market maker, hedge fund or crypto-native trading firm.

Compensation

Pay is built around performance. The base salary is kept deliberately low, and most of what you earn comes from a share of the net profit your strategies generate. There is no ceiling on what you can earn. We shape the exact structure with each candidate during the process, and all compensation is in USD.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note to [email protected] with the subject line "Junior HFT Quant Trader". In the note, tell us about one thing you've built or traded, what worked, and what didn't.

Our process: a short intro call, a take-home research exercise, a technical interview on probability, statistics and code, and a final conversation.