Are you interested in working closely with portfolio managers and traders in a buyside firm? If so, this engineering role offers the chance to sit at the centre of a Tier‑1 Buyside firm’s platform, partnering directly with front‑office teams to shape how they analyse markets, run simulations, and execute trades.
Role overview
A Tier-1 Buyside firm is seeking a senior software engineer in Hong Kong to act as the local anchor for its global platform in Asia-Pacific. The team builds and maintains the end‑to‑end systems that is used by portfolio managers and traders. This role is designed to be a structural part of the APAC operating model: you will be both a hands‑on builder and the primary technology voice for regional investment teams into a globally coordinated roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the first point of contact in Asia-Pacific for all matters related to the platform, building trusted relationships with portfolio managers, traders, and engineering teams.
- Actively represent APAC priorities in the global roadmap, clearly communicating local requirements and pushing for delivery of high‑impact outcomes for regional strategies.
- Develop and ship production-quality software across the stack, including front‑end, back‑end, data layers, and the workflows that connect them.
- Take ownership of significant workstreams, especially where APAC relevance and business impact are central, ensuring features move from design through implementation into live use.
- Participate in senior‑level forums, contributing an engineering perspective and representing the team when hiring and onboarding future regional engineers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering experience, with a clear track record of developing and supporting production systems end‑to‑end.
- Strong skills in an object‑oriented back‑end language such as Java
- Evidenced ability to own business stakeholders directly, build trust, and influence what gets built based on commercial impact and user needs.
- Self‑directed, highly accountable, and comfortable being the only engineer from a global team in a region, coordinating across time zones.
- Located in Hong Kong with a genuine desire to be close to APAC investment teams.
Preferred experience (not required)
- Previous experience as a regional lead within a global engineering organisation
- Background in hedge funds or asset management
- Fluency with AI/agentic tooling
- Cantonese or Mandarin language skills for working with non‑English-speaking stakeholders.
What the Firm Offers:
- Collaborative, intellectually driven culture.
- Healthy work-life balance with reasonable hours.
- Free breakfast and lunch, gym reimbursement, social events.
- Private healthcare, education assistance, and corporate discounts.
- Flat hierarchy and greenfield impact
Please send your CV to Wisely Collin at wisely.collin@ashford-benjamin.com, or call +852 2315 9517 for a confidential discussion.
To apply for this job email your details to wisely.collin@ashford-benjamin.com