Trading Tools & Data Engineering Specialist

Westbury Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners in Hong Kong is seeking engineers to build scalable trading and research tools that orchestrate strategies, explore large datasets, analyze risk, uncover opportunities, and empower traders through fast, flexible technology.

You will work closely with traders and researchers to translate ambiguous problems into practical solutions, design and develop tooling at scale, and iterate rapidly with stakeholder feedback to deliver value.

Qualifications

• Translate ambiguous business challenges into practical technical solutions.
• Design and develop tooling at scale for trading and research.
• Build data-driven systems for rapid analysis and exploration.

Responsibilities

• Translating ambiguous business challenges into practical technical solutions.
• Designing and developing trading and research tooling at scale.
• Building data-driven systems that enable rapid analysis and exploration.
• Supporting strategy orchestration and trading workflow optimization.
• Developing analytical capabilities around risk, trades, and market opportunities.
• Collaborating closely with traders, researchers, and stakeholders across the business.
• Evaluating prototypes and determining whether to scale, refine, or replace them.
• Continuously improving tools through short development cycles and rapid feedback.
• Moving comfortably between different technologies depending on the problem at hand.

Skills

Python

Java

React

SQL

Data engineering

Job description

Build scalable trading and research tools that orchestrate strategies, explore large datasets, analyze risk, uncover opportunities, and empower traders through fast, flexible technology and continuous experimentation.

What You'll Do:

• Build tools that help traders orchestrate strategies across a broad product range.
• Develop infrastructure that makes large datasets fast and intuitive to explore.
• Create solutions for trade analysis, risk modelling, and opportunity discovery.
• Work closely with traders and researchers to understand real-world problems.
• Experiment with new ideas, rapidly validate solutions, and scale successful concepts.
• Choose the right technology for each challenge, using Python, Java, React, SQL, or other appropriate tools.
• Iterate quickly based on direct stakeholder feedback and changing requirements.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translating ambiguous business challenges into practical technical solutions.
• Designing and developing trading and research tooling at scale.
• Building data-driven systems that enable rapid analysis and exploration.
• Supporting strategy orchestration and trading workflow optimization.
• Developing analytical capabilities around risk, trades, and market opportunities.
• Collaborating closely with traders, researchers, and stakeholders across the business.
• Evaluating prototypes and determining whether to scale, refine, or replace them.
• Continuously improving tools through short development cycles and rapid feedback.
• Moving comfortably between different technologies depending on the problem at hand.

Why Join Us:

• Work directly alongsidetraders and researchers who use the technology you build.
• Solve open-ended problems where defining the solution is part of the engineering challenge.
• Work across trading systems, data infrastructure, analytics, risk, and strategy tooling.
• Enjoy rapid feedback loops that allow ideas to move quickly from concept to production.
• Use a diverse technology stack rather than being restricted to one language or framework.
• See the direct impact of your work on trading strategy, analysis, and opportunity discovery.

About You:

• Energized by ambiguous problems where the solution has not yet been defined.
• Comfortable moving between programming languages and technologies.
• Pragmatic about technology and focused on selecting the right tool for each problem.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Able to uncover the underlying need behind a stakeholder's initial request.
• Comfortable experimenting, iterating, and rapidly validating new ideas.
• Willing to scale successful solutions while confidently abandoning approaches that do not deliver value.
• Curious, adaptable, and motivated by solving complex problems in dynamic environments.

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