Quant Developer

Gravitas Recruitment Group; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong is seeking a Quant Developer to own the core systems powering quantitative research and live trading, delivering ultra-fast, fault-tolerant services. You will work across research and trading platforms, optimise infrastructure from network to kernel and ensure deterministic, scalable production under real market load.

Strong C++ development and experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems, plus managing heterogeneous compute fleets across regions, are

Qualifications

• C++ development experience.
• Experience designing ultra-low-latency, high-throughput services.
• Experience managing heterogeneous compute fleets across regions.
• Experience optimising systems from the network through to the kernel.
• Experience translating research into production systems with rigorous SLAs and SLOs.
• Experience building high-fidelity benchmarks and traces.
• Experience working with automated performance gates and latency budgets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate ultra-low-latency, high-throughput services supporting quantitative research and live trading
• Automate provisioning and deployments
• Manage heterogeneous compute fleets across regions
• Optimise infrastructure from the network through to the kernel
• Translate research into production systems with deterministic behaviour, reproducible simulations and production-ready resilience
• Define hard latency budgets and enforce them with automated gates
• Build high-fidelity benchmarks and traces
• Sustain peak performance under real market load

Skills

C++ development

Ultra-low-latency design

High-throughput services

Heterogeneous compute

Systems performance tuning

Productionizing research

Benchmarks and traces

Latency budgets

Job description

Quant Developer

The Quant Developer owns the core systems powering quantitative research and live trading, delivering low-latency, fault-tolerant and massively parallel services. The company’s platform supports billions of computations across machines around the globe, turning ideas into production systems that make real-time decisions at scale.

Role Overview

Working across the research and trading platform, the role covers the full lifecycle of technical systems, from infrastructure and hardware optimisation through to production operations. Success means delivering deterministic, reproducible and resilient services that sustain peak performance under real market load.

Key Skills & Experience

• C++ development experience
• Experience designing and operating ultra-low-latency, high-throughput services
• Experience managing heterogeneous CPU, GPU and FPGA compute fleets across regions
• Experience optimising systems from the network through to the kernel
• Experience translating research into production systems with rigorous SLAs and SLOs
• Experience building high-fidelity benchmarks and traces
• Experience working with automated performance gates and latency budgets

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate ultra-low-latency, high-throughput services supporting quantitative research and live trading
• Automate provisioning and deployments
• Manage heterogeneous compute fleets across regions
• Optimise infrastructure from the network through to the kernel
• Translate research into production systems with deterministic behaviour, reproducible simulations and production-ready resilience
• Define hard latency budgets and enforce them with automated gates
• Build high-fidelity benchmarks and traces
• Sustain peak performance under real market load

Requirements

• Based on-site in Hong Kong