About the role
We need a small, highly skilled, and trustworthy development team with strong experience in crypto, quantitative trading, and backend engineering—ideally with expertise in Rust and high-frequency trading systems. The team will focus on exploiting arbitrage opportunities across prediction market platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain automated trading bots for arbitrage opportunities, including both execution and risk management logic.
- Integrate real-time data feeds and order books from multiple prediction market platforms.
- Develop secure, scalable, and low-latency infrastructure optimized for high-frequency trading.
- Collaborate with quant researchers and strategy developers to implement proprietary trading strategies.
- Ensure code quality, robustness, and adherence to security best practices.
Requirements:
- Strong background in backend development with Rust or other high-performance languages.
- Experience in crypto trading, blockchain-based platforms, or quantitative trading systems.
- Knowledge of high-frequency trading, market microstructure, and order book dynamics.
- Ability to work with large-scale, real-time datasets and optimize for low latency.
- Strong problem-solving skills, trustworthiness, and ability to work independently.
Contract Details:
- Type: Freelance, with potential to convert to full-time.
- Time zone preference: UK, Europe, or West Coast USA.
- Hours: Full-time preferred; minimum ~20 hours/week acceptable.