My client is a leading global quantitative investment manager with a technology-led approach to financial markets. The firm brings together exceptional talent across software engineering, quantitative research, data science and trading, creating an environment where technology sits at the heart of the investment process.

Following significant international growth, the firm continues to invest heavily in its technology capabilities across APAC and is now looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join a new team in Hong Kong building a globally distributed, real-time data platform.

This is an opportunity to work on greenfield, high-performance distributed systems , solving complex engineering problems around scale, throughput and real-time data processing.

The Role

You will join a small, highly collaborative engineering team responsible for designing and building a new distributed platform from the ground up.

The platform will process and distribute large volumes of real-time data globally , supporting sophisticated research and data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Designing and building high-throughput, distributed real-time systems
2. Taking ownership of systems design and architecture , including scalability, reliability and performance
3. Developing greenfield platforms capable of significant horizontal scaling
4. Writing optimised, high-throughput production code
5. Solving complex engineering challenges around real-time data distribution and processing
6. Working closely with quantitative researchers, data scientists and other engineering teams
7. Contributing to architectural decisions and the broader engineering culture of the team
8. Helping shape technical standards and best practices as the platform and team grow

Requirements

The key requirement is a strong software engineering background combined with genuine experience designing and developing distributed real-time systems .

You should have:

1. 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
2. Hands-on experience developing distributed, real-time systems
3. Strong knowledge of systems design and architecture
4. A strong foundation in Python
5. Experience writing performant, scalable and high-throughput software
6. Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals
7. Ability to reason about performance, scalability, reliability and architectural trade-offs
8. Strong communication and collaboration skills
9. An interest in working within a highly technical, engineering-led environment

The team is relatively technology agnostic and is interested in strong engineers rather than candidates from one particular technology stack.

Experience within financial markets is not required . Candidates from technology companies, data infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, real-time applications and other technically demanding engineering environments are strongly encouraged to apply.

Advantageous Experience

Any of the following would be beneficial but are not essential:

1. Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture
2. Kafka or other real-time streaming technologies
3. High-performance Python, including NumPy or Numba
4. Python interoperability with C++ or Rust
5. C++ or Rust
6. Polars, Arrow, Flight or gRPC
7. Large-scale data platforms
8. Market or financial data
9. SRE / DevOps
10. Technical or project leadership

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join a highly successful, rapidly growing global investment organisation where technology is viewed as a core competitive advantage rather than a support function.

The firm has established an exceptional multi-year track record and continues to expand internationally, with APAC representing a major strategic area of investment and growth .

The successful candidate can expect:

1. Greenfield engineering with the opportunity to influence architecture from an early stage
2. Technically challenging distributed-systems problems at significant scale
3. A highly collaborative environment with access to exceptional engineers, researchers and data scientists
4. Significant autonomy and technical ownership
5. An engineering culture focused on quality, performance and thoughtful problem-solving
6. Excellent employee retention and a strong reputation as an employer
7. A first-class working environment in Hong Kong
8. Continued career opportunities as the firm's APAC technology organisation expands
9. Highly competitive compensation

This role should particularly appeal to engineers who enjoy building complex systems from first principles and want to work alongside highly capable technical colleagues without needing previous experience in finance.

BAH Partners specialize in placing the leading technology and quantitative talent into Asia Pacific’s premier financial and technology-driven organizations. If you would like more information, or to confidentially discuss your career options, please contact me at Bodhi.Henderson@bahpartners.com or call (852) 2850 4877 | (852) 6535 7977

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