Senior Quant Developer: Build Low-Latency Crypto Trading

Btse; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

BTSE seeks engineers to design and build a high-performance crypto trading platform from the ground up. Work on latency-critical systems with real-world impact, delivering real-time market data and exchange connectivity. You will influence trading performance, ownership, and speed in a fast-moving fintech environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on development in Java or C++, with Linux performance tuning and observability, to optimize latency and throughput across the stack.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating low latency systems in production.
• Strong understanding of concurrency and threading models.
• Memory management and cache efficiency.
• Networking fundamentals with latency trade-offs.
• Experience with high-performance messaging frameworks (Aeron/Chronicle Queue) or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low latency, event-driven trading systems.
• Develop real-time market data pipelines and exchange connectivity.
• Build order execution systems and internal messaging infrastructure.
• Design and integrate trading strategies into production to influence PnL.

Skills

Java

C++

Low latency

Concurrency

Memory management

Networking basics

Tools

Aeron

Chronicle Queue

SBE (Simple Binary Encoding)

Job description

BTSE seeks engineers to design and build a high-performance crypto trading platform from the ground up. Work on latency-critical systems with real-world impact, delivering real-time market data and exchange connectivity. You will influence trading performance, ownership, and speed in a fast-moving fintech environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on development in Java or C++, with Linux performance tuning and observability, to optimize latency and throughput across the stack.