My client, a tier-1 buyside firm, is hiring an engineer to develop and improve the systems supporting its research and trading activities. This opportunity welcomes candidates from financial-services technology with no prior quantitative development or research experience who wants to move into a quantitative trading environment. The focus is on strong Python coding skills, hands-on troubleshooting and ownership of production systems.
About the role
You’ll work alongside quant researchers and engineers in a position combining software development with production reliability. Beyond keeping systems running, you’ll investigate underlying problems, automate manual processes and improve the performance of research workflows and trading-related infrastructure.
Key responsibilities
- Investigate production alerts and failed processes, identify the underlying causes and implement fixes.
- Improve monitoring to make system behaviour clearer and detect potential problems earlier.
- Strengthen research pipelines by eliminating recurring faults and reducing manual intervention.
- Write and maintain software that improves operational reliability and computational efficiency.
- Optimise demanding workloads, including machine-learning and GPU-based processes where relevant.
- Contribute across development, testing, deployment and ongoing user support.
- Improve release procedures, system upgrades and recovery processes.
- Provide responsive support during relevant trading hours.
What we’re looking for
- 2+ years of relevant experience in financial-services engineering, production support or trading technology.
- Strong Python development skills and practical C++ capability.
- Confidence working with Linux and Bash for scripting, troubleshooting and system operations.
- Experience resolving production problems through code and technical investigation.
- The ability to take ownership of issues and work independently when systems are under pressure.
- A performance-focused approach to building reliable, maintainable software.
- Strong analytical thinking and the ability to communicate clearly with researchers and engineers.
- No previous quant role or strategy research experience is required. Candidates should bring a strong engineering foundation and an interest in learning how research connects with live trading.
Please send your CV to Wisely Collin at wisely.collin@ashford-benjamin.com, or call +852 2315 9517 for a confidential discussion.
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