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About the Role
Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Quantitative Developer - Risk to own platform risk management, from setting safety parameters to building infrastructure for new asset listings and support.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve the core on-chain margin engine and offchain risk services
- Own and maintain risk parameters across supported assets, ensuring they reflect current market conditions and platform risk tolerance
- Support the end-to-end process of listing new assets, including scoping and implementing unique risk considerations
- Design and build the risk framework for emerging asset classes
- Build tooling and infrastructure to make risk management scalable
- Independently scope and drive large, ambiguous projects from specification through production, partnering closely with trading, engineering, and research
Requirements
- A strong quantitative foundation (degree or equivalent experience in math, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science, or a related field) with demonstrated quant interest and aptitude, e.g., economic or financial modeling
- Experience building and shipping production software, not solely research or analysis
- Ability to make informed decisions independently and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
- Passion for decentralized finance
Skills
- Rust
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of relevant experience (quant trading, quantitative research, risk management, or software engineering with a strong quant bend); exceptional new graduates from top-tier programs will also be considered
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent experience in math, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science, or a related field
About the Company
- Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure.
- Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.
- Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana.
- Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs.
- Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets.
- Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.