DeFi Quant (Risk) at karpatkey

At karpatkey, we’re looking for a DeFi Quant to join our Risk Management team, responsible for identifying, assessing, and controlling risks.

Responsibilities

• Build a Risk Scoring Model for DeFi investment projects;
• Review new and existing DeFi projects and perform Quantitative and Qualitative risk assessments and ratings;
• Work closely with the DeFi Investment team to help develop appropriate risk and control frameworks;
• Identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and propose mitigation strategies;
• Generate and review risk measures, stress tests (eg. VAR) to ensure the business’s risk/return targets and goals are within appetite;
• Develop proprietary, fundamentals based risk modelling tools and methodologies to analyse evolving markets and the impact on company businesses;
• Develop and maintain a professional risk control environment that is conducted within risk limits, processes, and standards set for regulatory and operational risks of the company and as required by external Auditors/Examiners;
• Responsible for the documentation of processes and procedures;
• Keep track with the development of DeFi and Investment projects.

Qualifications

• Strong educational background in analytical fields such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Quantitative Finance;
• Minimum 2 years of experience in quantitative analytics and quantitative research;
• Proficiency in Python programming language coding skills;
• Experience building own tools/automations/market analysis;
• Experience with numerical and statistical packages such as Pandas;
• A solid understanding of DApps, Ethereum as well as Yield Farming;
• Very good understanding of smart contracts technology;
• Solid communication skills;
• Abide by our values.

Benefits

• Home office;
• Flexible hours;
• PTO Benefits;
• Yearly training budget;
• Home-office equipment budget;
• Bonus award.