Quantitative Markets Engineer

Europe and UK | North America East Coast (Remote). Posted 13 months ago

The role

You will own the trading and markets layer of Pod, including the order book, perpetuals engine, risk and margin systems, and financial primitives. You will also build and run Pod's internal market maker and work with external market makers to bootstrap liquidity.

What you will do

Improve and maintain the order book, perpetuals engine, risk engine, and leverage/margin systems.
Configure and tune market parameters such as funding, fees, tick/lot sizes, margin tiers, and liquidation thresholds.
Design and ship on-chain financial primitives such as vaults, AMMs, prediction markets, and other derivatives.
Build and operate Pod's internal market maker and partner with external market makers to deepen liquidity.
Monitor live markets for health, risk, and anomalies, and iterate on parameters and safeguards.
Work with research on incentive design, batch auction mechanics, and settlement models.

Required qualifications

Deep understanding of market microstructure: order books, matching, derivatives (especially perpetuals), margin, liquidation, and funding mechanics.
Hands-on experience in market making, quant trading, or designing/operating exchange and trading systems.
Ability to translate markets knowledge into production code (e.g. Python, Rust, C++, or Go) and reason about correctness and edge cases under live trading conditions.

Nice to have

DeFi / on-chain trading experience: AMMs, perp DEXs, vault strategies, prediction markets.
Experience with low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
Blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems.

Benefits

Competitive salary plus meaningful upside.
Ownership of one of the most consequential surfaces at Pod.
A high-impact role on an ambitious, fast-moving team working alongside strong researchers and top market makers.
Travel opportunities and thought-leadership visibility in the crypto community.

About the company

Pod Network is building a Layer-1 for open markets where orders clear in frequent batch auctions. It is backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap.