Quantitative Developer - Options Markets

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Paradex is a high-performance decentralized exchange incubated by Paradigm.co - crypto’s largest institutional liquidity network, handling up to 40% of global crypto options volume with over $1 Trillion in total venue volume traded.

Our parent company, Paradigm, is backed by a $400M Series A valuation from top-tier investors. Leveraging this institutional foundation, we build core trading infrastructure for Paradex with zero legacy constraints and a relentless focus on clean, maintainable architecture. Since launch, Paradex has facilitated $220+ billion in cumulative trading volume and holds over $100 million in Total Value Locked across 250+ markets.

We are actively expanding our options platform and looking for a Quantitative Developer to design, architect, and build our Options Pricing Infrastructure from the ground up.

How We Work:

We have no product managers, no middle management, and no 1:1s. No bullshit. Just clean, low-latency code. You’ll work directly with our leadership and an elite team of builders in the trenches every day, owning your domain end-to-end.

Fair Warning: This is an intense, high-bar environment. We will push you hard, but you’ll grow faster than anywhere else and do some of the most meaningful, high-impact work of your career on the frontlines of DeFi ⚔️

Quick Facts

$260+ Billion Lifetime Volume (Paradex)

$1+ Trillion Lifetime Volume (Paradigm.co)

Paradex is committed to building transparently in public 👉 key platform stats

Your Mission

As a Quantitative Developer, you will be a primary architect of the pricing and market data infrastructure that powers Paradex. You won't just be maintaining a platform; you will be solving one of the hardest problems in crypto derivatives: building high-fidelity, low-latency pricing, risk, and quoting systems that operate reliably across 250+ markets at production scale.

You will bridge the gap between rigorous financial engineering and the high-performance backend systems required to deliver it.

What You’ll Do

Market Data Systems: Build and maintain the data infrastructure that supports pricing, risk, and research, including real-time tick capture, cross-venue normalization, historical storage, and low-latency replay for backtesting.

Pricing Infrastructure: Design and implement pricing models for derivatives. Ensure correctness, low latency, and observability.

Trading Algorithms: Contribute to the development, improvement and monitoring of the strategies underpinning the protocol vault

Risk and Analytics Backend: Implement services that monitor risk in real time across the platform.

Research-to-Production Pipeline: Transition models from research environments into production services capable of handling live order flow. Apply rigorous backtesting, controlled deployment, and ongoing monitoring.

What You Bring

Backend Engineering: Strong production experience building low-latency, high-throughput backend services, with demonstrated ability to operate and debug them under load.

Data Infrastructure: Experience with time-series databases, message buses (such as Kafka, Redpanda, or NATS), and the operational realities of high-volume market data.

Trading Systems: Prior experience working on or alongside production trading systems at an exchange, proprietary trading firm, market maker, HFT firm, or comparable crypto-native venue.

Options Experience (preferred): Knowledge or direct experience with options pricing, volatility surface construction or options market making.

Ownership: Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for a domain end to end, with limited specification or supervision.

Your Perks & Benefits

Competitive Pay: Top-tier compensation in the industry.

Generous PTO: Unlimited vacation.

Full Benefits: Comprehensive packages tailored by country.

No manager 1:1s and no bullshit meetings.