High-Performance Trading Tools Engineer

Westbury Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners is seeking a Software Engineer Tooling for our High-Frequency Trading (HFT) team in Hong Kong. You will build intuitive tools enabling traders to orchestrate and scale strategies across a broad product range, while developing high-performance infrastructure for large datasets.

You will work with Python, Java, React, SQL and other tools, taking ideas from experimentation through to scalable production solutions, in close collaboration with traders and researchers.

Qualifications

• Ability to solve open-ended problems and define right solutions.
• Comfort moving between programming languages and technologies.
• Ability to communicate confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience uncovering user needs beyond initial requests.

Responsibilities

• Build intuitive tools for traders to orchestrate and scale strategies across a broad product range.
• Develop high-performance infrastructure to explore, analyse, and understand large datasets.
• Create solutions for trade analysis, risk modelling, and identifying trading opportunities.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and stakeholders to translate challenges into technology solutions.
• Prototype rapidly and scale successful ideas into robust production systems.
• Analyse large volumes of trading and market data to uncover insights.

Skills

Problem solving

Cross-language adaptability

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

Tools

Python

Java

React

SQL

Job description

Westbury Partners is seeking a Software Engineer Tooling for our High-Frequency Trading (HFT) team in Hong Kong. You will build intuitive tools enabling traders to orchestrate and scale strategies across a broad product range, while developing high-performance infrastructure for large datasets.

You will work with Python, Java, React, SQL and other tools, taking ideas from experimentation through to scalable production solutions, in close collaboration with traders and researchers.