{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5d1635f8b52cd05e48903fac","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d1635f8b52cd05e48903fac","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d1635f8b52cd05e48903fac","title":"Quantitative Developer, Liquidity","description":"About UsRelay is a cross-chain payments protocol that provides instant, low-cost cross-chain bridging, swaps, and transactions. We're the fastest and cheapest way to bridge and transact across chains, serving over 5 million users who have completed 59+ million transactions with $6+ billion in volume across 85+ chains.Our company mission is to make transacting across chains as fast, cheap, and reliable as online payments. We are building the core infrastructure to abstract chains from end user payments, enabling the next billion users to experience the benefits of blockchain without the UX burdens.About The RoleThe Liquidity team keeps Relay's liquidity reliable, competitively priced, capital-efficient, and within its risk framework. Reporting to the Head of Liquidity, you will be one of the first members of this newly formed team, helping define its operating model while owning the day-to-day health of liquidity across assets, chains, wallets, CEXs, bridges, and in-flight rebalances.We are looking for a quantitative generalist who will own the analysis, model development, validation, monitoring, and recommendations that make liquidity decisions rigorous and executable. In this role, you may take on such projects as improving portfolio management and delta-hedging logic, optimizing execution and rebalance costs, and designing a better pricing solution for a client across multiple chains and assets.This is a high-ownership, production-facing role, not a research-only position. You will take ambiguous quantitative problems through analysis, production implementation, monitoring, and live operation, with direct impact on pricing competitiveness, execution quality, P&L, capital efficiency, and risk. We work agentic-first: AI agents accelerate research, analysis, coding, testing, and monitoring, while people remain accountable for methodology, risk, and production decisions.We are looking for candidates who are currently located in or can work full-time in either US West Coast (Pacific Standard Time) or APAC timezones.What you'll doBuild portfolio and hedging modelsDevelop portfolio-management and inventory-allocation models across assets, chains, venues, and liquidity systemsDevelop and recommend target positions, delta-hedging policies, exposure limits, stress responses, and safe hedge-execution logic for approval within the team's liquidity and risk frameworkModel capital requirements and opportunity costs so liquidity can be allocated where it creates the most valueConnect model decisions to realized positions, P&L, capital usage, and risk outcomesOptimize execution and rebalancingMeasure execution and rebalance costs across fees, slippage, timing, price impact, and operational failure modesOptimize route choice across bridges, CEXs, single-hop and multi-hop paths, and alternative liquidity providersDevelop decision rules for rebalance confidence, route duration, provider enablement, and when not to executeUse live and historical data to improve execution quality, predictability, and capital efficiencyBuild pricing across assets, chains, and clientsDevelop client-pricing and fee models across routes, assets, chains, transaction sizes, and market conditions.Design fixed-spread, dynamic-fee, and surge-pricing approaches that remain competitive while covering execution, rebalance, capital, and risk costs.Evaluate pricing for new client requirements and identify low-liquidity routes, exclusions, capacity limits, and required safeguards.Define quantitative inputs for haircuts, seed limits, asset and chain onboarding, and new liquidity mechanisms.Put models into production and operate themBacktest and validate strategies using realistic costs, out-of-sample testing, scenario analysis, stress testing, and clearly stated assumptionsShip model logic with tests, versioned configuration, observability, dry-run evaluation, rollout controls, and human override pathsDefine the position, flow, execution-lifecycle, P&L, cost, and risk telemetry required to compare decisions with realized outcomesInvestigate live pricing anomalies, high price impact, unexpected P&L, balance drift, and model failures; support incidents, rebalances, and approved operational changes when neededParticipate in the follow-the-sun on-call rotation, owning quantitative investigation and decision support during your coverage hours and occasionally extending coverage when requiredAbout YouYou're a quantitative generalist who enjoys moving between portfolio, hedging, execution, pricing, and risk problems and is excited to help build a new team's quantitative cultureYou care about realized outcomes, not only model elegance or backtest performanceYou're rigorous about assumptions, data quality, uncertainty, and out-of-sample evidenceYou're comfortable taking high ownership from open-ended analysis through production code, live operation, measurement, and iterationYou're willing to switch from planned research to incident analysis or hands-on liquidity operations when the system needs itYou explain complex trade-offs clearly to engineering, operations, product, commercial, finance, and leadership partnersYou're comfortable using AI agents to accelerate research and development while independently validating their outputYou're excited about crypto, capital markets, and the quantitative challenges of cross-chain liquiditySkills And Abilities3-5+ years in quantitative development, quantitative research, trading, market making, portfolio management, risk, or equivalent applied quantitative workStrong Python and SQL skills, with the engineering judgment to turn analysis and models into tested, maintainable production systemsStrong understanding of capital markets and market microstructure, including liquidity, order books, execution costs, slippage, hedging, and risk frameworksExperience evaluating models with realistic costs, incomplete data, changing regimes, and out-of-sample evidenceTrack record translating ambiguous business or operational questions into measurable objectives, constraints, assumptions, and decision rulesAbility to communicate model behavior, uncertainty, risk, and recommendations clearly and operate autonomously within a defined risk frameworkNice to haveCrypto or blockchain industry experience, particularly with AMMs, bridges, CEXs, stablecoins, and cross-chain liquidityPrior work in electronic trading, execution algorithms, market making, portfolio optimization, treasury, or prime brokerageExperience building production pricing, risk, hedging, or trading systems with real-money consequencesFamiliarity with simulation infrastructure, model monitoring, P&L attribution, experiment design, and production observabilityTypeScript experience or a track record working closely with backend engineers to integrate quantitative logic into production servicesExperience participating in production monitoring, incident response, and hands-on liquidity or trading operationsWhat we offerCompetitive base salaryEquity packageComprehensive health benefitsUnlimited PTO policy with encouraged minimumRemote-first culture with emphasis on collaboration, communication, and flexibility","company":"Relay","rawCompany":"relay","city":"Corrigan","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-29T08:26:40.752Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-2099.01","title":"Financial Quantitative Analysts","slug":"financial-quantitative-analysts"},{"code":"15-2031.00","title":"Operations Research Analysts","slug":"operations-research-analysts"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"522320","title":"Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities","slug":"financial-transactions-processing-reserve-and-clearinghouse-activities"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Quantitative Developer, Liquidity","description":"About UsRelay is a cross-chain payments protocol that provides instant, low-cost cross-chain bridging, swaps, and transactions. 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Reporting to the Head of Liquidity, you will be one of the first members of this newly formed team, helping define its operating model while owning the day-to-day health of liquidity across assets, chains, wallets, CEXs, bridges, and in-flight rebalances.We are looking for a quantitative generalist who will own the analysis, model development, validation, monitoring, and recommendations that make liquidity decisions rigorous and executable. In this role, you may take on such projects as improving portfolio management and delta-hedging logic, optimizing execution and rebalance costs, and designing a better pricing solution for a client across multiple chains and assets.This is a high-ownership, production-facing role, not a research-only position. You will take ambiguous quantitative problems through analysis, production implementation, monitoring, and live operation, with direct impact on pricing competitiveness, execution quality, P&L, capital efficiency, and risk. 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