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DeFi Risk Analyst

Remote, Hybrid
  • Paris, Île-de-France, France
Integration

Job description

🦋 About Morpho

Morpho is 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. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $3 billion in assets supplied on the protocol. In just 6 months, our new permissionless protocol, Morpho Blue, grew from 0 to $2 billion, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its 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.

📍 Location

Paris 🥖 or remote 🌍 (up to - 6h UTC to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

🛠 Mission & Responsibilities

Your main tasks will include:

  • Support Morpho 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 within Morpho Labs.

Job requirements

🧙 Must-have Experience & Skills

Risk & Finance

  • Risk Expertise: 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.
  • Game Theory: Ability to conceptualize and model users’ behavior

DeFi

  • DeFi Understanding: In-depth knowledge of DeFi.
  • Analytics Tools: Familiar with blockchain explorers and DeFi analytics platforms like Dune Analytics.

Technical Skills

  • System Modelling: Ability to autonomously model systems using Python and perform data analysis.
  • Back Testing: Experience in conducting back-testing.
  • Proficient in Git.
  • Proficient in Python.
  • Good knowledge of DBs/APIs.

Key competencies

  • Proven ability to conduct impactful research and identify trends.
  • Relentless focus on continuous learning, with an ability to quickly comprehend complex systems, such as Morpho IRM.
  • Clear communication, capable of translating complex analysis into simple documents to help decision-making.

Personal Qualities

  • Ownership & Proactivity
  • Humility & Low Ego
  • Financial Interest
  • Autonomy

🤝 There is a good match if

  • You have a genuine passion for coding and learning, you constantly seek to learn new ideas and technologies.
  • You are mission-driven and excited about Morpho's purpose to make finance a common good.
  • You are a humble team player, willing to embrace ideas from others if they are better for the project.

🎁 What we offer

You will join one of the most important DeFi protocols. We are a really ambitious team, shipping fast with an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer:

  • A very stimulating environment. Our team members are among the best researchers and engineers on Crypto/DeFi topics and we like to share our knowledge internally, namely through our weekly “DeFi school” session.
  • The opportunity to contribute to one of the top 3 Decentralized Lending protocols.
  • A comfortable work environment with a flexible policy on working remotely or from our Paris office (75002) and access to the best tools on the market to help you with your work.
  • Team events including off-sites, bootcamps, and afterworks, even when you’re remote.
  • An attractive package including Morpho tokens 🦋👀.

Ready to shape the future of finance?

We are looking forward to receiving your application.

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