Risk Analyst - DeFi

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Risk Analyst - DeFi - candidates need to be based outside of Europe between UTC-7 and CET.

We are a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to support its mission of revolutionizing lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform. We are experiencing explosive growth, with over $3 billion in assets supplied on the protocol. In just 6 months, our new permissionless protocol grew from 0 to $2 billion, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, we are scaling our team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone - not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

💼 Who we are looking for

We are seeking a Risk Analyst who will own various risk topics(market arbitrage, risk analysis, vault performance assessments, etc.) and own the reward distribution strategy.

🛠 Mission & Responsibilities

Your main tasks will include:

• Support our integrators and their performance. Give strategic guidance to optimize for their long-term sustainability by conducting in-depth market studies.
• Develop and provide tools with the help of the integration team to optimize market efficiency.
• Help scale the deployment of new markets and vaults.
• Own the development of risk tooling for risk curators.
• Provide guidance and support to risk-related projects.
• Own our rewards distribution strategies.
• Track our tokens across different venues and types of holders.

Requirements

Proficient in risk and quantitative analysis, including mathematical and statistical modeling (4-5 years of experience)

Market Understanding: Strong knowledge of market operations, price discovery, and liquidity.

System Modeling: Ability to autonomously model systems using Python and perform data analysis. Back Testing: Experience in conducting back-testing.

In-depth knowledge of DeFi, launching tokens, token distribution, and incentive mechanisms.

Based outside of Europe between UTC-7 and CET.

Benefits

• Ownership and autonomy over your work, allowing you to grow and develop your skills.
• The chance to contribute to a top decentralized lending protocol, recently securing $50M in funding.
• A flexible work environment, with options to work remotely (US Eastern & Europe time zone) or from our new office in Paris (75001) and associated co-working spots around the world.
• An attractive compensation package, including tokens.
• Engaging team events, such as offsites, boot camps, and after-work activities, even for remote team members.
• A stimulating environment with some of the best researchers and engineers in Crypto/DeFi, featuring internal knowledge-sharing through our weekly “DeFi School” sessions.