HFT Quant Developer: Low-Latency C++ Trading Systems

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business is seeking an experienced C++ Quantitative Developer in Hong Kong. You will join a high-frequency trading team focused on liquid macro futures, building and optimising the trading infrastructure that supports systematic strategies.

The role involves ownership of components from data processing to order execution, with a frontline view into production trading systems and low-latency design.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional C++ development experience in quantitative trading or related domains.
• Strong knowledge of memory management, multithreading and performance optimisation.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput or performance-critical applications.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems and architecture.
• Experience with trading infrastructure, data feeds, or order management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and optimise high-performance C++ trading systems for HFT strategies across liquid macro futures markets.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Manager and Researchers to translate ideas into production systems.
• Build low-latency market data processing, order management and execution infrastructure.
• Develop efficient, scalable components for real-time signal processing and automated trading.
• Profile and optimise latency-sensitive code focusing on CPU efficiency and concurrency.
• Improve reliability, monitoring and operational resilience of trading systems.
• Own development across architecture, implementation, deployment and production support.

Skills

C++

HFT

Linux

Multithreading

Job description

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business is seeking an experienced C++ Quantitative Developer in Hong Kong. You will join a high-frequency trading team focused on liquid macro futures, building and optimising the trading infrastructure that supports systematic strategies.

The role involves ownership of components from data processing to order execution, with a frontline view into production trading systems and low-latency design.