Senior Python Trader Tech - Front Office (Quant)

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong is seeking a Senior Developer - Trading Tech to join our front-office technology team. You will act as the technical expert on the trading floor, working directly with traders, quants, and researchers to build and optimize trading software.

You will design and improve day-to-day trading applications, speed up data ingestion, and troubleshoot live systems to minimize downtime. A nose for data, reliability, and fast market adaptation is essential.

Qualifications

• Expert Python skills: You can write high-quality, clean, and reliable code.
• Stock trading knowledge: You understand how futures, options, and complex trading strategies work.
• Front-office experience: You have a proven history of collaborating directly with live trading desks.
• Financial data systems: You know how market data feeds work on standard terminals like Bloomberg or Reuters.
• Reliability mindset: You take ownership of your code and support your applications when issues arise.

Responsibilities

• Designing and improving applications used for day-to-day trading.
• Speeding up the way we bring in and use new financial datasets and trading ideas.
• Watching live systems and quickly troubleshooting technical bugs to reduce downtime.
• Creating reliable systems so the trading team can enter new markets faster.

Skills

Python

Stock trading

Front-office

Market data

Reliability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group Hong Kong is seeking a Senior Developer - Trading Tech to join our front-office technology team. You will act as the technical expert on the trading floor, working directly with traders, quants, and researchers to build and optimize trading software.

You will design and improve day-to-day trading applications, speed up data ingestion, and troubleshoot live systems to minimize downtime. A nose for data, reliability, and fast market adaptation is essential.