Full-stack Engineer (Go, TypeScript)

Robert Half Hong Kong Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Robert Half Hong Kong Limited is seeking a senior Full-Stack Engineer in Hong Kong to architect and scale Go services with modern TypeScript frontends. You will own real-time data pipelines, build high-performance dashboards, and develop modular UI components for cross-team use.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience across backend and frontend, strong Go and TS skills, and a solid background in real-time systems and cloud-native workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering with production ownership on backend and frontend.
• Expertise in Go for designing, building and operating microservices.
• Proficiency in modern TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React/Svelte/Vue).
• Hands-on experience with real-time data streaming and event-driven systems.
• Strong UI/UX sensibility and reusable component design.
• Commitment to quality with unit/integration testing, CI/CD, and cloud workflows.
• Excellent collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and scale Go backend services integrated with TS frontend platforms.
• Engineer real-time pipelines to ingest, stream, and render high-frequency data.
• Create high-performance charting modules and analytics dashboards.
• Design modular UI components, shared SDKs, and plugin architectures.
• Drive performance tuning, memory profiling, and ultra-low latency reliability.
• Lead code reviews, enforce testing standards, and mentor peers.

Skills

Go backend

TypeScript

Real-time data

UI/UX

CI/CD

Communication

WebSockets

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Our client a premier digital asset financial services firm. It provides liquidity, algorithmic execution, wealth management, and institutional trading solutions globally, blending quantitative trading expertise with deep crypto-native infrastructure to bridge traditional finance and digital assets.

The Role

• Full-Stack Architecture: Architect, deploy, and scale robust Go backend services integrated with modern TypeScript frontend platforms, ensuring strict type safety across boundaries
• Real-Time Data Pipelines: Engineer dynamic interfaces capable of ingesting, streaming, and rendering massive volumes of high-frequency market data and distributed network events
• Advanced Data Visualization: Build high-performance charting modules and bespoke analytics dashboards designed to handle rapidly updating, large-scale datasets with zero rendering lag
• Component Infrastructure: Design and maintain modular component libraries, shared UI SDKs, and extensible plugin architectures for cross-team scalability
• System Optimization & Reliability: Drive performance tuning, memory profiling, and system architecture across the full stack to guarantee ultra-low latency under heavy load
• Product & Workflow Engineering: Collaborate with quantitative researchers, trading desks, and product leads to translate complex financial workflows into seamless, high-performance UI solutions
• Technical Leadership: Conduct rigorous code reviews, champion automated testing standards, and mentor engineering peers in modern full-stack development practices

Your Profile

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with proven production ownership across both backend services and frontend architectures
• Backend Mastery (Go): Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, and operating production-grade microservices and APIs in Go (Golang) independently
• Frontend Mastery (TypeScript): Expert-level proficiency in modern TypeScript and current component-driven frameworks (e.g., React, Svelte, or Vue), with the flexibility to adapt to team architecture standards
• Real-Time Systems & Streaming: Hands-on experience building event-driven systems utilizing streaming protocols (e.g., WebSockets, Server-Sent Events) for live data processing
• UI/UX Craftsmanship: Strong product intuition with a high standard for visual polish, intuitive interaction design, and component reusability
• Engineering Discipline: Strong commitment to software quality, including unit/integration testing strategies, CI/CD integration, and cloud-native workflows (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Communication: Exceptional collaborative skills with a track record of partnering directly with non-technical and technical business stakeholders