Live Trading & Data Engineering Specialist

Westbury Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners is seeking a Live Trading & Data Engineering Specialist to build innovative trading, analysis, risk, and data tools that empower traders and researchers to scale strategies, explore opportunities, analyse markets, and make faster, better-informed decisions.

You’ll work across the full development lifecycle, from identifying problems and shaping solutions to rapidly testing ideas and scaling successful products, spanning trading orchestration, data exploration, risk

Qualifications

• Experience building tools for traders and researchers.
• Ability to work across the full development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Build tools to help traders manage and orchestrate strategies across a broad product range.
• Develop scalable infrastructure for exploring and analysing large volumes of data.
• Create solutions for trade analysis, risk modelling, and identifying new trading opportunities.
• Work closely with traders, researchers, and stakeholders to understand real-world needs.
• Turn loosely defined problems into practical technical solutions.
• Prototype and test new ideas quickly, learning from experiments.
• Scale proven solutions into reliable, production-ready systems.
• Choose the most appropriate technology for problems across Python, Java, React, SQL.

Skills

Python

Java

React

SQL

Tools

Trading software

Job description

Live Trading & Data Engineering Specialist

Build innovative trading, analysis, risk, and data tools that empower traders and researchers to scale strategies, explore opportunities, analyse markets, and make faster, better-informed decisions.

What You'll Do:

Join an engineering team focused on building the tools, infrastructure, and analytical capabilities that enable traders and researchers to operate and analyse trading strategies at scale.

You’ll work across the full development lifecycle, from identifying problems and shaping solutions to rapidly testing ideas and scaling successful products. Your work may span trading orchestration, data exploration, risk modelling, trade analysis, and opportunity discovery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build tools that help traders manage and orchestrate strategies across a broad product range.
• Develop scalable infrastructure for exploring and analysing large volumes of data.
• Create solutions for trade analysis, risk modelling, and identifying new trading opportunities.
• Work closely with traders, researchers, and other stakeholders to understand their real-world needs.
• Turn loosely defined problems into practical technical solutions.
• Prototype and test new ideas quickly, learning from both successful and unsuccessful experiments.
• Scale proven solutions into reliable, production-ready systems.
• Choose the most appropriate technology for each problem, working across Python, Java, React, SQL, and other tools.
• Maintain short feedback loops through close collaboration with the people using the systems you build.

Why Join Us:

• Solve meaningful problems: Work on technology directly supporting trading and research activities.
• Own the problem: Have a voice in defining what gets built, not simply how it gets implemented.
• Work across disciplines: Combine software engineering, data, analytics, infrastructure, and trading.
• Use the right technology: Move comfortably between languages and frameworks based on the problem at hand.
• See your impact quickly: Work closely with end users and benefit from rapid feedback and iteration.
• Experiment and innovate: Try new approaches, scale what works, and confidently move on from ideas that don't.

About You:

You’re a curious and adaptable engineer who enjoys tackling problems where the solution isn’t immediately obvious. You’re comfortable moving between technologies and care more about solving the problem effectively than staying within a particular technical stack.

You enjoy collaborating with people across a business and have the ability to uncover what stakeholders genuinely need, rather than simply implementing their initial request.

You’re also comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation, and change. You enjoy taking an idea from an early concept through rapid testing and, when it proves valuable, turning it into something robust and scalable.