About this role
Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
Position Overview
- Develop and enhance systematic trading capabilities within the trading platform.
- Translate trader and quant requirements into production-grade trading algorithms.
- Build trading domain expertise to effectively map business logic into robust software design.
- Improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the trading engine through continuous engineering best practices.
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents, including crashes, unexpected business-logic behavior, and latency/performance bottlenecks.
- Support release preparation and deployments for new trading engine versions.
Core Responsibilities
- Own development of the systematic trading framework and core services.
- Design, develop, and support APAC and cross-regional systematic trading strategies.
- Build expertise in APAC market micro-structure to customize systematic trading modules for regional market characteristics and regulatory requirements.
Core Skills & Qualifications
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of post-graduation professional C++ development experience at a buy-side proprietary trading firm.
- Strong ability to write clean, reliable, maintainable, and highly scalable code.
- Solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Experience with parallel, asynchronous, and multithreaded programming.
- Strong performance mindset (latency, throughput, resource utilization) and ability to optimize for available hardware/software.
- Ability to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Skills
- Data
- APAC
- Support
- Development
- Structures
- Regulatory Requirements
- Data Structures
- Trading
- Algorithms
- BSC
- Reliability
- Mathematics
- Programming
- Computer Science
- C++
- Preparation
- Software
- Design
- Engineering
- Business
- Science