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Join Ellipsis Labs as a Quantitative Developer - Risk to manage risk across DeFi protocols, ensuring market safety and supporting new asset classes.
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.
- Maintain and improve the core on-chain margin engine and offchain risk services
- Own and maintain risk parameters across our 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 the unique risk considerations each asset requires
- Design and build the risk framework for emerging asset classes
- Build tooling and infrastructure that make risk management scalable
- Independently scope and drive large, ambiguous projects from specification through production, partnering closely with trading, engineering, and research
Required
- 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
Preferred
- 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
- Experience working with blockchain technology, specifically Solana
- Background in quantitative or prop trading, particularly with derivatives, perpetual futures, or options
- Familiarity with pre-IPO or private market funding structures
- Proficiency in Rust