Trading | DeFi Trading Analyst | Dubai

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Assess new venues and early protocols by evaluating venue APIs and protocol contracts.
• Build and test initial integrations, coordinate their production launch with Exchange Connectivity, and monitor venue performance after launch.
• Build and improve Morpho vault risk monitoring and alerting for utilisation, collateral health, oracle behaviour, and liquidation exposure.
• Automate routine checks to help the desk react quickly to market conditions.
• Track new listings, venues, yield sources, and pricing gaps across centralized and on-chain markets.
• Size opportunities, outline risks and requirements, and present clear go/no-go proposals.
• Own the technical backlog, agree priorities with relevant teams, and ensure requests are delivered.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, or a similar field.
• Strong, demonstrable Python skills applied to opportunity sourcing, risk tooling, venue integrations, and testing.
• Read-level Solidity sufficient to judge protocol and vault risk before the desk commits capital.
• Hands-on experience with exchange APIs and/or DeFi protocols.
• Solid understanding of crypto spot and perpetual markets and DeFi, including AMMs and lending.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Preferred skills

• TypeScript is preferred for working with early protocols that provide TypeScript SDKs.
• Read-level Rust is preferred for reading Exchange Connectivity code and writing precise requests.

Location and work arrangement

• Dubai is required; the role is on-site with the trading desk.

Person profile

Benefits

• Benefits include 100% health coverage, team events and offsites, a company pension scheme, and a learning and development budget.

Recruitment process

• The process includes an initial screening, take-home technical test, hiring manager interview, team and Director of Trading interviews, and a final interview with the Head of Talent Strategy.