Position: Quantitative Modeler
Company: NEAR UA
Experience required: 3y
Category: Data Science
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

📍**Duties and Responsibilities:**
As a Quantitative Modeler, you will be focused on increasing the capital efficiency of the protocol. You’ll track and analyze the existing algorithms, adapting them given the specific features of DeFi, and back your models up with data. In addition, you will model and design future products that can be built on top of the protocol. For this role, we look for a passionate person about blockchain and cryptocurrency innovation.

📍**Requirements:**
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in quantitative financial analysis or data science
• BS/MS degree in a quantitative field (statistics, economics, computer science, etc.)
• Practical experience in object-oriented programming
• Practical experience in financial modeling
• Practical experience in Python, SQL, R, and Matlab for statistical analysis and quantitative modeling
• Experience with trading applications
• Advanced knowledge in applying machine learning, data mining, and - Monte Carlo techniques for quantitative modeling
• Strong mathematical skills (calculus, including differential, integral and - stochastic, linear algebra and differential equations, numerical linear algebra)
• Expert knowledge in probability and statistics, game theory, portfolio theory, and credit risk management

📍**It would be an advantage:**
• Practical experience in C++
• Understanding the decentralized finance concept
• Equity and interest rate derivatives, including exotics
• Systematic and discretionary trading practices

📍**Benefits**
☝️ A chance to work with one of the strongest Data Science teams in the field
💻 The newest equipment if you need it
📌 Courses, conferences, and other self-development activities upon request
🏄 Cool team buildings in Ukraine and Portugal
🌴 Paid 18 days off
👨‍💻 Fully remote work or hybrid