Equity Volatility Trading Engineer (Low-Latency)

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,100,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong is seeking a Quantitative Developer for Equity Volatility Execution. The role involves creating and maintaining a systematic platform for volatility trading across US and APAC markets, interfacing with researchers, traders and software engineers.

You will work on low-latency trading systems, market making, risk checks, and real-time data handling, collaborating across time zones with a strong emphasis on software quality and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C++ with strong problem-solving for latency-sensitive systems.
• Experience building/maintaining high-performance trading software.
• Familiarity with end-to-end development, testing, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance software for latency-sensitive trading environments.
• Support market making, pre-trade checks, risk checks, and order controls.
• Collaborate with researchers and traders to implement execution models.
• Contribute across requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Analyze market data to improve execution quality and system robustness.
• Work with global teams and modern tooling to boost productivity.

Skills

C++

Low-latency systems

Linux development

CI/CD

Cross-time-zone collaboration

Kdb+/q knowledge

Networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP)

Education

Bachelor's or higher in quantitative/technical field

Tools

kdb+/q

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong is seeking a Quantitative Developer for Equity Volatility Execution. The role involves creating and maintaining a systematic platform for volatility trading across US and APAC markets, interfacing with researchers, traders and software engineers.

You will work on low-latency trading systems, market making, risk checks, and real-time data handling, collaborating across time zones with a strong emphasis on software quality and production readiness.