Job Details

Head of Quant Development (Prominent payments and cryptocurrency platform)

Job Highlights:

  • Experience in building/ leading a diversified group of quant developer team to develop trading infrastructure, strategies and risk development
  • Innovative, outstanding problem-solving skills, self-motivated & communicative
  • Experience in global financial markets & Passionate in Blockchain / Crypto Development & technological advancement
  • Working along with Founding members deliver brand new crypto product in the market
  • Enjoy an international, high growth and driven environment

Company Culture:

  • An entrepreneurial, startup, fast-paced, flat structure, dynamic, result driven and collaborative international team environment which values both individual and team performances

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage quant developer team and lead different projects across trading infrastructure, strategies and risk development
  • Own all aspects of trading strategy code including trading algorithms, execution performance, and exchange connectivity
  • Proactively provide creative inputs in order to engineer new and enhance existing trading algorithms, infrastructure and strategies
  • Design and upgrade current trading infrastructure with cutting edge technology
  • Work closely with other teams to automate trading/reconcile/analytics work flow
  • Identify potential areas for optimization and performance enhancements including suggestions for the ongoing maintenance and improvement of overall code quality
  • Mentoring junior team members and build up development team culture
  • Provide realistic estimates for project and software development timelines to ensure accountability

Key Requirements:

  • Excellent Java / C++ / Python development experience in Linux / UNIX environment
  • In-depth knowledge of algorithms, data structures and threading
  • 10+ years of relevant experience and 5+ years of high performance trading system development
  • Extensive experience with OOP / OOD
  • Excellent understanding of the software life cycle and strong software prototyping, design and scripting skills
  • Strong analytical skills and desire to solve complicated problems programmatically
  • Ability to thrive on the challenge of competitive pressure
  • Fluent in English

Personality Fit:

  • Strong technical leadership accompanying with “get things done” mentality
  • Strong organizational skills and remains flexible. Be able to juggle conflicting requirements from many different stakeholders
  • Impeccable accountability to both internal and external teams
  • Achievement-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset. Being open for feedback/ challenges and embrace better ideas from others
  • Good interpersonal skills, communicative and collaborative
  • Strong cultural awareness and is also technically oriented
  • Possess entrepreneurial spirit and wants to grow with the company

Excellent opportunity and exposures:

  • Be part of Blockchain and Crypto industry from scratch alongside with a talented international team
  • Develop a brand new product from scratch alongside with talented team
  • Flat, collaborative and result driven team. Work side by side with the co-founding team members
  • Embed with huge responsibilities since Day 1 and can have the opportunity to establish strong team culture
  • Attractive compensation package and benefits
Contact Us:

8/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road Kennedy Town Hong Kong (Licence #: 68153)

8/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building,
12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

+852 2156 2281