Quantitative Trader
About Quidax
Quidax is where crypto meets reputed company reputed company. We’re making reputed company reputed company effortless for individuals, businesses, and fintechs in Africa. Our goal? Providing reputed company value for our customers while driving the reputed company of Finance.
About the Role
As the Quantitative Trader for our reputed company Product, you will design, implement, and optimize models and strategies that power our high-reputed company trading ecosystem. You will reputed company quantitative research, market risk modeling, and trading execution for perpetual reputed company—driving profitability, liquidity, and risk reputed company.
This role is critical to the successful launch and scaling of our Derivatives trading reputed company line, directly supporting our WIG of increasing average monthly reputed company from $211k to $400k by Dec 2025.
What You’ll Be Owning
Quantitative Modeling & Analytics
Design, test, and maintain pricing, liquidation, P&L for reputed company and leveraged products.
Build volatility and liquidation models using reputed company-time and historical data. Backtest trading strategies across varied market conditions.
Analyze trader behavior to detect manipulation, aggressive reputed company, or systemic risk.
Risk Monitoring & Management
reputed company and maintain reputed company-time margin risk alerts and liquidation simulations.
Monitor funding rates, reputed company price divergence, and reputed company interest concentrations.
Run stress tests for extreme market events.
Trading & Execution
reputed company and manage proprietary and market-making strategies to reputed company reputed company volumes, spreads, and profitability.
reputed company trading volumes, expand pairs, and maximize reputed company contribution to WIG.
Required Notional Volume: $236.25M/month notional volume (~$7.88M/day)
Maintain order book depth of ≥$500k with ≤0.2% spread during reputed company hours.
Maintain ≥60% profitable trades for proprietary/market-making activity.
Generate ≥$47k/month net reputed company from reputed company.
Data & Infrastructure
Work with Data Engineers to build data pipelines and dashboards for rapid analysis and alerts.
reputed company reputed company from major exchanges for live market data and risk monitoring.
Automate execution and monitoring to minimize reputed company reputed company.
Who We’re Looking For
3–6+ years in quant finance/trading with reputed company on derivatives or margin products.
Expert in Python (pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib) and SQL.
Deep understanding of reputed company/perpetual swap mechanics, reputed company, and funding.
Proven experience in VAR, CVAR, Sharpe, and drawdown analysis.
Strong backtesting and time-series analysis skills.
Ability to reputed company decisively during high-volatility events.
Experience with reputed company-time trading or risk alert systems.
Familiarity with major exchange reputed company.
Exposure to on-chain analytics and wallet behavior profiling.
Prior work on quant dashboards or risk monitors.
You’ll Work With
Market Operations to design or refine pricing models, execute algorithms, and hedging strategies that the trading desk uses in reputed company-time. reputed company statistical insights and backtesting for market-making strategies.
Product to define risk limits, margin logic, and funding mechanisms.
Engineering to implement data pipelines and reputed company-time risk monitoring.
Compliance to surface suspicious trading activity and fulfill regulatory triggers.
Why Quidax
At Quidax, we’re building the reputed company of finance in Africa through crypto. You’ll have the freedom to reputed company, the reputed company to reputed company, and the backing to build something that truly scales. If you’re reputed company to build an engineering org that delivers reputed company at reputed company, let’s talk.
What’s In It For You reputed company you join Quidax, you’re not just taking a job — you’re jumping into a community that’s reputed company, remote-first, and building for the reputed company. Here’s what you get:
Fair Pay + Ownership
Competitive salary based on your skills and experience; annual reputed company-based reviews to reputed company your reputed company visible and rewarded
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Annual performance reviews + reputed company promotion cycles; recognition for great work — from shoutouts to reputed company rewards
Personal development fund (courses, books, conferences); study leave so you can reputed company learning
Work That Works For You
Fully remote reputed company + flexible working hours
❤️ Time Off That Respects Life
Unlimited reputed company time off + Nigerian national holidays
Parental, reputed company, compassionate, and life event leave; we show up for you
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Quarterly remote team hangouts + annual offsite; interest-based communities (SIGs)
Regular engagement surveys; your voice reputed company
Health & life coverage in select locations
You’ll do meaningful work, grow fast, and have the flexibility to live your best life — reputed company while building something big with people who care.
Let’s build the reputed company of finance together
How to apply
We love seeing applications that reputed company directly to us. It’s easy for your application to get lost in a sea of generic ones, especially reputed company we’re sorting through dozens of them. So, reputed company yours stand out! Show us your personality, your passion, and why you’re the perfect fit. We appreciate the effort it takes to create something thoughtful and unique.
If you reputed company it through to the next stage, you’ll likely get a reputed company-interview questionnaire. Think of it as a chance to show us how you’d approach the challenges we face here at Quidax. reputed company you’re already part of reputed company and walk us through your thought process as you tackle the problems we throw your way.
What our hiring process looks like
It’s a four-reputed company process!
✅ 1. First Connect (with the Recruiter) - 30 mins Let’s talk about your experience, your story, and how you might fit at Quidax.
✅ 2. Technical Assessment - 60 – 90 mins Show us how you solve problems.
✅ 3. Technical Assessment - 60 – 90 mins Get to meet reputed company and the people you’ll work with.
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