Latency-Driven Quant Developer - Crypto Markets

Hytech; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hytech is seeking a talented software engineer to support its senior systems architect in building, optimizing, and maintaining a real-time trading infrastructure. You will work on execution, quoting, risk systems, market-data handlers, and latency-critical components across multiple crypto derivatives exchanges.

The role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with high-performance, event-driven systems, and proficiency in Python plus a performance language such as Rust or

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building low-latency applications.
• Proficient in Python and Rust or C++.
• Experience with market-data handlers, quoting engines, and price caches.
• Knowledge of low-latency techniques (lock-free, ring buffers, cache alignment).
• Experience with Docker and automated deployments.
• Familiar with Pub/Sub or streaming frameworks (Kafka, Redis Streams).
• Crypto or market-making tech stack experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement latency-sensitive components of the market-making engine (market-data handlers, order routers, quoting logic)
• Optimize latency, jitter, and throughput across real-time data pipelines and execution paths
• Build and maintain exchange connectors (WebSocket, REST, FIX-like variants) with robustness and micro-latency considerations
• Profile, debug, and optimize system performance in cloud-hosted environments
• Develop internal monitoring tools for latency analytics (e.g., orders, market-data delays, queue states)
• Tune garbage-collection behaviour, CPU pinning, async event loops, and other performance parameters
• Assist in creating automated stress-testing and load-testing frameworks to simulate exchange conditions
• Work closely with traders on strategy parameters, safeguards, and scenario testing

Skills

Python

Rust

C++

Low-latency

Docker

Kafka

Redis Streams

Latency profiling

WebSocket

REST

FIX-like

Tools

SSTools

WebSocket

REST APIs

Job description

Hytech is seeking a talented software engineer to support its senior systems architect in building, optimizing, and maintaining a real-time trading infrastructure. You will work on execution, quoting, risk systems, market-data handlers, and latency-critical components across multiple crypto derivatives exchanges.

The role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with high-performance, event-driven systems, and proficiency in Python plus a performance language such as Rust or