Front Office Python Trading Platform Engineer

Bonhill Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonhill Partners in Hong Kong is seeking a highly technical Front Office engineer to advance a next-generation equity trading platform. The role combines Python development with real-time problem solving in a tight, business-focused environment.

You will own automation, platform reliability, and production tooling, collaborating directly with Traders and Portfolio Managers to optimize execution workflows and trading performance.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering capability.
• Experience building production-grade tooling, automation, or distributed systems in Python.
• Previous Front Office trading technology experience within buy-side or sell-side environments.

Responsibilities

• Building Python-based automation, tooling, and engineering solutions for Front Office trading platforms
• Improving platform reliability, monitoring, observability, and operational tooling
• Working directly with Traders and Portfolio Managers to solve complex real-time trading problems
• Troubleshooting trade lifecycle, booking, and workflow issues across equity products
• Developing scalable tooling to improve reconciliation, alerting, and operational efficiency
• Contributing to platform engineering initiatives focused on performance, resilience, and scalability
• Supporting production releases, testing, deployment validation, and system improvements
• Investigating production issues using SQL, Python, and system-level analysis
• Collaborating with infrastructure and engineering teams globally on platform evolution initiatives
• Operating within high-performance Linux/Unix production environments

Skills

Python engineering

Production tooling

Distributed systems

Front Office trading

Trading workflows

SQL analytics

Real-time problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Linux/Unix

Job description

Bonhill Partners in Hong Kong is seeking a highly technical Front Office engineer to advance a next-generation equity trading platform. The role combines Python development with real-time problem solving in a tight, business-focused environment.

You will own automation, platform reliability, and production tooling, collaborating directly with Traders and Portfolio Managers to optimize execution workflows and trading performance.