Quantitative Developer - DeFi WealthTech Startup
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-09-12
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for:
Skyrocket Ventures
Full Time, Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Blockchain / Web3, Backend Developer, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Quant Developer / Quantitative Software Engineer - DeFi Wealth Tech Startup
Location:
New York, NY (you can work from home 3x/week)
The company's product is at the intersection of decentralized finance (DeFi) and modern wealth tech.
The company has 8 employees and 4 engineers. It has raised seed funding and is expecting a larger round of seed funding soon.
The company will pay up to $250k in salary, plus equity which could be very lucrative.
Job Responsibilities:- Working as the only quant on the team.
- Building retail-focused quantitative strategies, working with cutting-edge technology, and contributing to a product that uses every piece of the crypto/DeFi stack.
- Working directly with the CEO, who previously worked in high frequency trading.
- Strong in Python, Type Script, and systems fundamentals.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar domains quickly.
- Experience building onchain / blockchain strategies like Basis Trades, Funding Rate Arbitrage, Lending/Borrowing/Looping, and more.
- Experience managing capital risk in the past, and having built systems to observe and control risk when markets are volatile.
- Deep onchain knowledge, with thorough understanding of how swaps, lending, AMMs, and perps work technically and economically.
- Strong Python and Type Script skills, with an emphasis on type-safe boundaries, domain-driven architecture, and correctness in financial systems.
- Experience building production systems with Cloudflare Workers, Workflows, Durable Objects, Queues, R2, D1, KV, Pipelines, service bindings, and scheduled triggers. Comfortable designing stateful, event-driven, edge-native systems and managing infrastructure through Wrangler and Alchemy.
- Familiarity with Viem/Wagmi, Zero Dev Kernel smart accounts, session-key permissions, SIWE/Privy authentication, and bundler/paymaster infrastructure. EVM experience is expected;
Solana/SVM and cross-chain execution experience is a strong plus. - Experience with Hono, tRPC, Zod, durable workflows, event-driven architecture, and realtime systems. Ability to design idempotent, replay-safe execution paths across distributed Cloudflare services.
- Comfortable with agent-native engineering, using coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code for codebase research, implementation, testing, and review—while maintaining ownership of architecture, security, and correctness.
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