Full-Time Quantitative Trader
Quidax is hiring a remote Full-Time Quantitative Trader. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting South Africa based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Job Title
Quantitative Trader
Posted
Career Level
Full-Time
Career Level
Experienced
Locations Accepted
South Africa
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About Quidax
Quidax is where crypto meets limitless possibilities. We’re making digital asset access effortless for individuals, businesses, and fintechs in Africa. Our goal? Providing real value for our customers while driving the future of Finance.
About the Role
As the Quantitative Trader for our Futures Product, you will design, implement, and optimize models and strategies that power our high-leverage trading ecosystem. You will lead quantitative research, market risk modeling, and trading execution for perpetual futures—driving profitability, liquidity, and risk resilience.
This role is critical to the successful launch and scaling of our Derivatives trading revenue line, directly supporting our WIG of increasing average monthly revenue from $211k to $400k by Dec 2025.
What You’ll Be Owning
Quantitative Modeling & Analytics
- Design, test, and maintain pricing, liquidation, P&L for futures and leveraged products.
- Build volatility and liquidation models using real-time and historical data.
- Backtest trading strategies across varied market conditions.
- Analyze trader behavior to detect manipulation, aggressive leverage, or systemic risk.
Risk Monitoring & Management
- Develop and maintain real-time margin risk alerts and liquidation simulations.
- Monitor funding rates, index price divergence, and open interest concentrations.
- Run stress tests for extreme market events.
Trading & Execution
- Deploy and manage proprietary and market-making strategies to achieve target volumes, spreads, and profitability.
- Scale trading volumes, expand pairs, and maximize revenue 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 active hours.
- Maintain ≥60% profitable trades for proprietary/market-making activity.
- Generate ≥$47k/month net revenue from Futures.
Data & Infrastructure
- Work with Data Engineers to build data pipelines and dashboards for rapid analysis and alerts.
- Integrate APIs from major exchanges for live market data and risk monitoring.
- Automate execution and monitoring to minimize manual intervention.
Who We’re Looking For
- 3–6+ years in quant finance/trading with focus on derivatives or margin products.
- Expert in Python (pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib) and SQL.
- Deep understanding of futures/perpetual swap mechanics, leverage, and funding.
- Proven experience in VAR, CVAR, Sharpe, and drawdown analysis.
- Strong backtesting and time-series analysis skills.
- Ability to act decisively during high-volatility events.
- Experience with real-time trading or risk alert systems.
- Familiarity with major exchange APIs.
- Exposure to on-chain analytics and wallet behavior profiling.
- Prior work on quant dashboards or risk monitors.
FAQs
What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Full-Time Quantitative Trader at Quidax is
21st of September 2025
. We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.
Which countries are accepted for this remote job?
This job accepts [
South Africa
] applicants. .
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