Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

C++ Engineer - Trading Platforms

 Job Description:

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