DeFi Algorithmic Trader - Trading Team
On-Chain / DeFi · London · Full-time · On-site
Annual base salary: £190,000 – £220,000 GBP
Role description
Westren Capital’s DeFi Algorithmic Trading team focuses on building and running systematic trading strategies across cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. The team works across both centralized exchanges and on-chain protocols, trading products such as spot, perpetual futures, options, and other digital asset instruments.
The role combines quantitative research, trading, and engineering. Team members analyse large datasets, study market behaviour, develop alpha signals, and build automated trading systems designed to operate in fast-moving and fragmented markets. A strong emphasis is placed on execution quality, risk management, and scalable infrastructure.
Researchers and traders work closely with engineers to develop tools, improve trading systems, and monitor live strategies. The team also works extensively with alternative datasets including blockchain data, order book data, funding rates, liquidity flows, and protocol-level activity to identify inefficiencies and market opportunities.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and deploy systematic trading strategies across DeFi and on-chain markets
Monitor and optimize live algorithmic trading systems across centralized and decentralized venues
Research alpha opportunities in market microstructure, liquidity flows, funding, basis, MEV, and cross-exchange inefficiencies
Build and improve execution logic for low-latency and high-frequency crypto trading strategies
Analyze large-scale on-chain and market datasets to identify persistent trading signals
Develop risk management frameworks, position sizing models, and exposure controls
Collaborate with engineering teams to improve trading infrastructure, automation, and execution reliability
Monitor live PnL, slippage, transaction costs, and strategy performance metrics
Conduct backtesting, simulation, and walk-forward validation for systematic strategies
Stay updated with evolving DeFi protocols, token mechanics, liquidity structures, and market behavior
Work with smart contract and infrastructure teams to integrate new protocols, venues, and trading systems
Improve portfolio construction, capital efficiency, and inventory management across multiple chains and exchanges
Requirements
Requirements:
Design, develop, and deploy systematic trading strategies across DeFi and on-chain markets
Monitor and optimize live algorithmic trading systems across centralized and decentralized venues
Research alpha opportunities in market microstructure, liquidity flows, funding, basis, MEV, and cross-exchange inefficiencies
Build and improve execution logic for low-latency and high-frequency crypto trading strategies
Analyze large-scale on-chain and market datasets to identify persistent trading signals
Develop risk management frameworks, position sizing models, and exposure controls
Collaborate with engineering teams to improve trading infrastructure, automation, and execution reliability
Monitor live PnL, slippage, transaction costs, and strategy performance metrics
Conduct backtesting, simulation, and walk-forward validation for systematic strategies
Stay updated with evolving DeFi protocols, token mechanics, liquidity structures, and market behavior
Work with smart contract and infrastructure teams to integrate new protocols, venues, and trading systems
Improve portfolio construction, capital efficiency, and inventory management across multiple chains and exchanges