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title: 'Experienced Quant at Da Vinci'
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# Experienced Quant at Da Vinci

- **Company:** Da Vinci
- **Location:** Hong Kong
- **Posted:** 2025-04-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives/jobs/4570121101

## Job description

Da Vinci is looking for experienced quants to join a highly skilled, collaborative team in solving complex problems. You will play a key role in ensuring our operations perform at the highest level possible, working to achieve our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.

Are you looking for an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion? Then this is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

## Responsibilities

Depending on your background and focus, your responsibilities may include:

As a Quant Trader

- Generate profits, trading by position taking and market making
- Manage and monitor trading risk in real-time
- Develop and refine strategies for both existing and new markets
- Optimize desk performance, devise new trading strategies and improve trading infrastructure

As a Quant Researcher:

- Analyze large datasets to identify trading opportunities
- Develop tools that translate data analysis results into useful inputs for trading
- Build and back test quantitative models and strategies
- Collaborate with traders and developers to bring strategies to production
- Explore new markets and refine existing models and tools

As a Quant Developer:

- Design and implement high-performance trading systems and tools
- Collaborate with researchers and traders to translate ideas into robust, scalable code
- Improve infrastructure, latency, and deployment workflows
- Ensure reliable operation in live trading environments

## Requirements

- 3 to 10 years of experience in a quantitative role (trading, research, or development) at a prop shop like ours or similar
- A strong academic background in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Deep understanding of financial markets and/or algorithmic trading (especially for trading roles)
- Proficiency in programming (Python, C++)
- A strong analytical mindset, attention to detail, and a desire to continuously improve
- Excellent communication skills and a team-oriented approach
- A proactive, entrepreneurial attitude and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

## Benefits

- Base salary of 1mln HKD, with total compensation (including performance-based bonuses) expected to be 500k + USD annually
- Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
- 25 vacation days each year
- Meals during work hours
- Social events and after-work drinks

## About Da Vinci

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house that provides liquidity in digital assets and traditional financial instruments, solving market inefficiencies through volatility arbitrage and delta1 strategies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Proprietary trading firm)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial services – proprietary trading, market making, quantitative finance
- **Target customers**: B2B – exchanges, brokers, and counterparties in digital asset and traditional finance markets
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building the best proprietary trading house in the world" by solving technical and mathematical challenges with creative solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Liquidity Provision**: Da Vinci provides liquidity on major exchanges across Asia and the US, trading digital assets and traditional financial instruments.
- **Proprietary Trading**: The firm takes directional positions trading volatility, using quantitative strategies and volatility arbitrage.
- **Melzi (In-house Trading System)**: A custom-built, low-latency trading system developed from scratch by Da Vinci engineers, designed to implement sophisticated trading strategies efficiently.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – not applicable (bootstrapped proprietary firm); headcount growth indicated by active hiring across multiple offices.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors listed; partners include exchanges and brokers such as W.S.G. Abacus (university partner).
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion to four global offices (Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong) and continuous hiring for trading, quant, and engineering roles; launched own trading system Melzi.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Non-hierarchical culture**: Encourages employees to speak up and shape the firm’s future, with no limit on personal growth.
- **Custom-built technology**: The Melzi trading system is purpose-built for low latency and specific trading needs, giving a competitive edge.
- **Talent focus**: Hires "sharp minds and strong drive" across trading, quantitative research, and development, with a meritocratic reward system.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainable growth and collaboration** across teams and offices.
- **Continuous innovation** in trading strategies and technology, with ongoing investment in employee development and in-house training.
- **Expanding global presence** in key financial hubs (Asia, US, Europe).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Non-hierarchical, meritocratic, and collaborative – employees are encouraged to explore interests and take ownership.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and bonus based on performance, not seniority.
- **Benefits**: In-house training and external programs, relocation support for expats (including Dutch classes in Amsterdam), public transport costs covered, gym memberships, nutritious meals, health insurance.
- **Work environment**: Year-round social activities, company trips, in-house lounge, sports events.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices in Amsterdam, Miami, Mumbai, Hong Kong – likely office-based given trading environment.

## Sources
1. [davincitrading.com](https://davincitrading.com/)
2. [davincitrading.com/careers](https://davincitrading.com/careers/)
3. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/davinciderivatives)
4. [abacus.utwente.nl](https://www.abacus.utwente.nl/partner/45-da-vinci.html)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/da-vinci-trading/jobs/)

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