Quantitative Developer

Jump Trading; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading in Hong Kong is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join a core team of technologists building platforms that drive the trading team. You will work with quantitative researchers to create and improve research, trading infrastructure, and production systems.

The role emphasizes rapid problem solving, scalable code, and reliability, with responsibilities from full-cycle development to user support and production monitoring.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and C++ for production code.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience handling large data sets and deriving insights.

Responsibilities

• Full cycle development: research, coding, testing, and deploying to production.
• Direct user support and troubleshooting of applications.
• Monitor and resolve issues in production trading systems.
• Take on additional duties as needed by the team.

Skills

Python

C++

Data handling

Analytical thinking

Detail-oriented

Ownership

Reliability

Job description

As a Quantitative Developer, you will work on a core team of technologists that build and improve the platforms that drive the trading team. You will work closely with the quantitative researchers to create and improve research, trading infrastructure, improve the scalability of the production systems, maintaining the production trading environment, troubleshooting problems, and developing software to automate and improve deployment, configuration, validation.

The team is looking for someone who will be passionate about development and demonstrates intellectual curiosity and an ability to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

What You'll Do:

• Full cycle development including researching and prod system, writing, testing & debugging code, deployment of finished code into the production environment and ensuring that all code is checked into the source code control system.
• Direct support of end users, trouble-shooting problems and upgrading applications
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, break/fix of production trading system
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Efficient in python, C++ and able to develop/maintain code for prod applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Must be extremely detail-oriented
• Proven success working with large data sets
• Self-directed and comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities.
• Reliable and predictable availability