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 be researching emerging DeFi innovation, develop POCs for market making strategies and tooling, 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 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 (Uniswap v3 / v4 for example) 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
Research & Innovation: Conduct research on emerging DeFi protocols / innovations, identify next-generation trends, and develop POCs for innovative market making strategies and tooling.
On-Chain Analytics: Perform data aggregation and analysis to inform strategic decisions, create internal presentations, and generate creative solutions for enhanced liquidity provision
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, Python / Rust
Bonus: Rust, Dune Analytics
Communications & Presentation Skills - feel comfortable to present in front mixed stakeholder audience
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
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
Work 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
Skills Required
- At least 2 years professional experience in Trading, Quantitative Finance, or Market Making
- Experience in quantitative analysis and data science (preferably on-chain data / DeFi)
- Web3 native; regular use of DeFi protocols
- Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with Python or Rust
- Hands-on software development experience in a quantitative finance environment
- Communications and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to mixed stakeholder audiences
- Client relationship management and account handling experience
- Well-organized, strong time management, proactive personality
- Comfortable in fast-paced environments with ambitious targets
- Bonus: Rust experience
- Bonus: Dune Analytics experience
- Bonus: Experience working in a successful DeFi protocol
What We Do
Arrakis has a simple but powerful vision: To extend small-molecule medicines into new realms of biology, unlocking that biology for medicine. Our approach builds on the existing sophisticated drug discovery toolkit developed for protein targets, which we are adapting and refocusing on discovering small-molecule compounds that act directly on RNA. We are pioneering new territory, with an expedition led by a team of skilled scientists and drug development leaders who are inventive yet pragmatic. We are on a bold and exciting mission, a mission not without peril, but we have an energized, collaborative, creative and fearless team – a team that has consistently breached barriers and blazed new trails in search of solutions. We are now poised to realize the promise of bringing RNA into play for small-molecule drug discovery. Pushing the frontier of this emerging field of science is gratifying, but our mission goes beyond the thrill of scientific discovery. We believe that by targeting RNA biology in new ways, we have the potential to impact millions of patients. Our platform will allow us to reach hundreds of biological targets not currently accessible to medicine, including known targets previously considered “undruggable.” Our destination is powerful new therapies for patients everywhere, by opening up a new path for discovering RNA-targeted medicines.
