Perpetual Futures Quant Trader (Perps)

At Gravity Team, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, we are on a mission to balance supply and demand across crypto markets around the world.

We're looking for a high-performance Perpetual Futures Quant Trader with deep experience in derivatives or HFT, someone who's ready to own their vertical and make an immediate PnL impact.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Develop and iterate high-frequency and systematic trading strategies for perpetual futures across major and altcoin markets.
• Build and optimize predictive models and signals for execution, funding rate arbitrage, basis trading, and post-trade analysis.
• Execute and manage cross-exchange and cross-instrument arbitrage (perps vs. spot, perps vs. futures), coordinating margin/collateral availability, internal transfers, withdrawals/deposits, and post-trade reconciliation to ensure smooth settlement and minimize fails.
• Own the perps trading pipeline — from funding rate tracking, market making and liquidation-risk logic, to monitoring and deployment.
• Collaborate on improving margin efficiency, cross-margining logic, and liquidation/risk management across venues.
• Analyze market microstructure, funding dynamics, and execution performance to improve Sharpe and reduce slippage.
• Help evolve our asset allocation logic — we actively manage positions, margin, and collateral across 30+ exchanges daily.
• Monitor open interest, funding rates, and leverage conditions to identify and act on dislocations before they normalize.

What We Expect

• 5+ years of experience in high-frequency or proprietary trading (crypto derivatives or traditional futures/options).
• Prior work in a high-frequency derivatives environment, funding/basis arbitrage, or a low-latency trading/execution system.
• Hands-on experience trading perpetual futures, funding rate strategies, and cross-venue basis trades.
• Knowledge of derivatives market structure, margin/collateral mechanics, liquidation engines, and price discovery across perp venues.
• Solid experience in hedging logic, managing margin/collateral flows, or optimizing asset rebalancing across multiple exchanges.
• Deep understanding of market microstructure and how to design systems that extract edge from funding, basis, and leverage dynamics.
• Strong ability to analyze PnL, post-trade statistics, and fine-tune strategies to optimize Sharpe ratio, turnover, and drawdowns.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, applied statistics, and predictive modeling.
• Familiarity with Rust is a valuable advantage.
• Able to design and maintain robust trading infrastructure, including real-time monitoring, execution diagnostics, dynamic parameter tuning, and automated risk controls.

Our Promise To You We offer you hands-on insight into one of the most exciting and lucrative industries today. Our work contributes to transforming the current financial industry and democratizing access to digital goods across the world.

Conditions

• Extremely open idea meritocracy and close to zero bureaucracy.
• Fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems.
• Working together with a highly talented team.
• Profit shares directly linked to your performance and market results — the upside is unlimited.
• Learning & Development budget.
• Benefits you can combine yourself — free food, Bolt taxi, sports, spa & wellness, etc.
• Opportunity to participate in global crypto events, making a direct and tangible impact on crypto markets worldwide.
• Flexible working hours, casual work attire, and startup atmosphere.