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# Principal Quant at GRVT TECHNOLOGIES

- **Company:** GRVT TECHNOLOGIES
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/grvt/2ffdd2ec-152b-4186-90c2-932958545513

## Job description

## What You’ll Do

1. Quantitative Strategies Design and Implementation

- Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative strategy across trading, market-making, and alpha generation.
- Ensure that individual trading algorithms, market-making models, and execution parameters fit together into a harmonious system designed for global efficiency.
- Own the end-to-end correctness, backtesting, and live performance of quantitative strategies in production.
- Take ownership over minimizing adverse selection, managing slippage, and optimizing execution quality under stress scenarios.
- Act as the primary quantitative expert for evaluating market behavior and strategy outcomes:
- analyzing realized volatility versus model predictions
- diagnosing strategy performance drift and optimizing alpha signals
- driving model adjustments based on market-making effectiveness and P&L
- Treat live trading results as the ultimate validation of design, continuously refining strategies based on real-world market dynamics. Biasing towards statistical robustness and long-term scalability.

1. Quantitative Product Ownership

- Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products.
- Ensure that individual models, parameters, and mechanisms fit together into a harmonious system, rather than a collection of locally-correct but globally-fragile designs.
- Own the end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability of quantitative products in production.
- Take ownership over preventing tricky edge cases, stress scenarios, and failure modes from hitting production.
- Act as the first line of defense for user, partner, and internal feedback related to quantitative behavior:
- answering questions about correctness and intent
- diagnosing whether feedback reflects misunderstanding, edge cases, or real design flaws
- driving fixes or adjustments when models do not behave as intended
- Treat post-launch behavior as a continuation of product design, continuously refining models based on observed outcomes and feedback. Biasing strongly towards system consistency during revisions, and avoiding repeated fragile patches.

1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

- Act as the technical lead for the research pipelines and infrastructure required to scale GRVT’s trading capabilities.
- Write exceptionally optimized and clean code (Python/C++) for backtesting, research tools, and execution modules.
- Collaborate with engineering to bridge the gap between research and high-performance production systems:
- designing low-latency data pipelines for strategy inputs
- optimizing the execution engine for market-making responsiveness
- building automated monitoring and attribution tools
- Take direct responsibility for validating implementations of quantitative products:
- design and execute deep testing in non-production and production environments
- reason about edge cases, stress scenarios, and failure modes that others are unlikely to catch
- use QA support where helpful, but remain personally accountable for correctness
- Own the outcome when quantitative products are mis-implemented, even if gaps were not caught by QA, recognizing that the domain complexity requires quant-level validation.

4.

## RISK MANAGEMENT & LIVE TRADING

- Take full P&L responsibility for live trading strategies and systemic risk behavior in production.
- Act as a key responder during incidents involving:
- abnormal trading behavior
- liquidation anomalies
- margin, risk, or insurance fund issues
- extreme market conditions or tail events
- Be accountable for real-time risk monitoring during market volatility, including:
- diagnosing root causes under pressure
- advising on mitigations, parameter changes, or temporary safeguards
- balancing user impact, platform safety, and long-term risk
- Lead or co-lead post-incident analysis for quantitative failures, ensuring:
- root causes are correctly understood (model vs implementation vs assumption)
- durable fixes are made to models, parameters, or system design
- learnings are fed back into product design and operational playbooks
- Proactively identify latent systemic risks and work with engineering and risk teams to reduce them before they manifest as incidents.
- Design trading strategies with real-time operability in mind, including:
- observability of key metrics and invariants
- explainability of system behavior during abnormal events
- safe failure modes and bounded blast radius

## What We’re Looking For (Core Requirements)

We’re looking for exceptional senior ICs who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skill.

You should demonstrate:

- Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure.
- A strong background in quant, with hands-on experience in quantitative trading, or market-making
- Proven strength as a Product Manager, including:
- owning outcomes end-to-end
- driving cross-functional alignment
- writing high-quality, precise specifications
- Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics.
- Strong operational mindset and comfort owning live P&L in production.
- Excellent communication skills, especially when explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly.
- Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making.

## About GRVT TECHNOLOGIES

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GRVT (Gravity Group Technologies) is building the world’s first licensed on-chain hybrid exchange and investment marketplace, allowing users to trade crypto, equities, and commodities while earning yield on their deposited margin.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore, Singapore
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Hong Gyu Yea (CEO), Aaron Ong (CTO), Matthew Quek (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services / Blockchain-based trading & wealth management
- **Target customers**: Retail and professional traders, crypto-native users, and investors seeking institutional-grade products without high minimums (B2C, with some B2B elements through liquidity partners)
- **Mission or purpose**: To eliminate the forced choice between earning yield and keeping capital ready to trade, by unifying margin and yield into a single balance on a self-custodial, privacy-first platform.

## Products & Services
- **GRVT Exchange** – A hybrid derivatives exchange built on ZK Stack (ZKsync’s Atlas technology). It combines a centralized order book (sub-millisecond latency) with on-chain settlement, offering trading in crypto, equities, and commodities with or without leverage. Users maintain self-custody of funds, reducing risks of hacks and fraud.
- **GRVT Strategies** – An on-chain investment marketplace offering institutional-grade funds (e.g., tokenized money market funds) with no minimums or accreditation requirements. Users can access diversified strategies directly from their trading balance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. The company blog states a valuation of $540M on a $34M raise (conflicting reports: Tracxn lists total funding at $33.3M).
- **Key Metric (Private)**: Total funding of $33.3M (or $34M) across 4 rounds, with the latest Series A in September 2025 led by Further Ventures and ZKsync.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Delphi Ventures, Further Ventures, QCP Capital, Matrix Partners, Hack VC, ZKsync Foundation, 500 Global. Strategic liquidity partner: Ampersan.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +48.4% YoY (35 employees per LinkedIn; Tracxn reports 49 as of May 2026). Monthly web traffic up +104.5% year-over-year. Active in 11 countries including Hong Kong, South Korea, UAE, Malaysia, Turkey. Over 15 open job postings as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **“One Balance” thesis** – Users earn a base yield (currently 3.5% at US Treasury rates) on all deposited funds, even while those same funds are used as margin for trading. No lockups or separate accounts.
- **Self-custodial hybrid model** – Combines the liquidity and speed of a centralized exchange (CEX) with the settlement security and user control of a decentralized exchange (DEX). Built on ZKsync Validium for privacy and scalability.
- **Institutional pedigree** – Founding team brings experience from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Meta, DBS Bank, and GovTech, giving credibility in both traditional finance and blockchain engineering.
- **Regulatory-first approach** – Claims to be the world’s first licensed on-chain exchange, operating under Singapore regulation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Privacy-first onchain finance** – Expanding the “exchange designed to pay you” model, targeting the trillion-dollar market of capital-efficient trading.
- **Global expansion** – Already in 11 countries; hiring for Japanese-speaking BD roles and heads of marketing to enter new markets.
- **Product ecosystem** – Deepening the integration between trading and wealth management, and partnering with liquidity providers like rhino.fi and Ampersan to scale.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment** – Headcount grew nearly 50% in the last year, with 15+ open roles across engineering, marketing, BD, and operations.
- **Talent density** – Team includes veterans from Goldman Sachs, Meta, DBS, OKX, and Bybit. CTO Aaron Ong led privacy frameworks at Meta; CEO Hong Yea was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs.
- **Cutting-edge tech stack** – Working with ZKsync, blockchain infrastructure, microservices, Kubernetes, React Native, and a wide range of modern tools (114 technologies detected). Strong emphasis on privacy engineering and high-performance trading systems.
- **Remote-friendly culture?** – Headquarters in Singapore but employees across 11 countries (including Hong Kong, South Korea, UAE, India). Job postings do not explicitly state remote policy, but the distributed team suggests flexibility.
- **Mission-driven** – Building an alternative to both centralized exchanges (like FTX failures) and traditional banking, with a clear value proposition: “profit with your users, not from them.”

## Sources
1. [grvt.io](https://grvt.io/) – Company homepage
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grvt) – LinkedIn company page (employees, growth, location)
3. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/grvt/__a8ReFCS5XdsWQfzLkpRQCk6YVZs6OxM06xbtMpwXvyo) – Tracxn company profile (funding, employee count, competitors)
4. [grvt.io/blog](https://grvt.io/blog/meet-the-team-building-the-exchange-designed-to-pay-you-2/) – Team blog post (founder backgrounds, valuation, partners)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/grvt) – Careers page (open positions)

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