Quantitative Developer

Jump Trading; Hong Kong; 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 technologist team. You will work with quantitative researchers to build and improve research, trading infrastructure, and the production environment, driving deployment automation and system validation.

You will contribute to full cycle development, support end users, monitor production systems, and tackle challenging technical problems in a fast-paced setting. A strong focus on reliability and data handling is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coding in Python and C++ for production systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with experience handling large data sets.
• Self-directed, with ownership of projects and reliable availability.

Responsibilities

• Full cycle development from research to production deployment and maintenance.
• Direct support of end users and troubleshooting.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and fix production trading system issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

C++

Data analysis

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