Quantitative Engineer

About Us

Bitwise is witnessing the birth of a new asset class with the rise of crypto. Over the last few years since our founding, crypto has evolved from an embryonic $50B market to a growing $3T+ juggernaut. We believe that crypto has reached a turning point and is headed north of $10T over the next few years.

For eight years, we have established a track record of excellence managing a broad suite of index and active solutions across ETFs, separately managed accounts, private funds, institutional staking, and hedge fund strategies. This year, we crossed $15B in client assets and are growing quickly. Thousands of financial advisors, family offices, and institutional investors partner with Bitwise to understand and access the opportunities in crypto. We are known for providing unparalleled client support through expert research and commentary, a nationwide client team of crypto specialists, and deep access to the crypto ecosystem.

Currently, Bitwise is a close-knit team of 100+ global professionals. We think of ourselves as a mix of an asset manager and a tech start-up, backed by some of the most accomplished investors in venture capital and veterans of the financial services world.

The Role

This role sits within the Bitwise Quantitative Engineering practice. This group is responsible for the firm's investment systems that sit at the nexus of engineering, trading and risk management. If you excel at technical implementation, enjoy building robust systems under real financial constraints, and think deeply about risk, this role is for you.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and build the core infrastructure for on-chain vaults
• Implement data pipelines for positions, PnL, risk metrics, and protocol-level analytics
• Develop risk management and monitoring frameworks
• Integrate with smart contracts and DeFi protocols, working closely with on-chain execution logic
• Build observability and alerting systems to monitor portfolio health and protocol behavior in real time
• Own the portfolio construction process and strategy outcomes
• Ensure systems are production-grade, resilient, and auditable

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer or quantitative engineer
• Strong experience with distributed systems and time-series data
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and analytics systems
• Strong intuition for risk management in financial systems
• Ability to reason about portfolio construction, leverage, and tail risks
• Experience building systems with strong observability (metrics, logs, alerts)
• Deployed production code that adheres to the principles of high availability, reliability and redundancy
• An appreciation for market facing systems, understanding that not everything can be encoded for and building resiliency to account for that
• A power-AI user with a high bar for quality (code, thought)
• Use first principles thinking to develop logic
• Experience working across the stack (infra, backend, frontend)

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with DeFi lending or yield protocols
• Developed algorithms to manage capital at scale within a multi-strategy portfolio
• Background in trading systems or quantitative finance
• Experience working with crypto market data or blockchain indexing
• Prior experience running your own strategy
• Prior experience building investment systems

Benefits

• Compensation: $170,000 - $180,000 + Equity + Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Equity compensation as a component of all offers
• Health insurance, including dental and vision plans
• Health, Dependent Care and Commuter Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Life insurance; short- and long-term disability plans
• Company-funded 401(k) plan, no matching required
• Unlimited PTO
• 10 paid company-wide holidays
• Company-wide winter break for most roles
• Office spaces in San Francisco, New York, and London
• Meals and snacks provided in office
• Paid company cell phone or stipend
• Bitwise "Buddy" Program (30-day new-hire success program)
• Annual birthday and anniversary gifts
• Company-wide events including annual holiday party
• Internal Women of Bitwise (WOB) group with fun events

Our Values

At Bitwise, we believe that our success is a direct reflection of the people who power it. Our work is guided by a core set of values that define how we collaborate, innovate, and serve our clients. We don't just hire for skill; we hire for a shared commitment to these principles:

• Create 'a ha' moments
• Move fast, with informed rationale
• Ask "What would the client want?"
• Show gratitude

Interview Process

• Recruiter Interview
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Meeting the Team
• Work Sample
• Executive/Founders Interview
• References
• Offer