Quant Developer - Equity Derivatives

We are seeking a Quant Developer to join our Equity Derivatives technology team at Equity IT in Hong Kong.

The team partners with Asia-based and global investment teams to support technology solutions for equity derivatives and structured products.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Portfolio Managers and traders to deliver pricing, risk, and P&L technology solutions for Equity Derivatives.
• Develop and support real-time applications for position management, pricing, risk, and P&L.
• Collaborate with global Technology and Quant teams to deliver the Equity Derivatives technology roadmap.

Requirements:

• Seven or more years of experience in equity derivatives technology, quantitative development, or front-office trading systems within financial markets.
• Strong practical knowledge of equity derivatives, including vanilla options and volatility products.
• Experience building and supporting real-time front-office position, risk, and P&L applications, including P&L explain, attribution, reconciliation, and intraday reporting.
• Understanding of the end-to-end risk lifecycle, from trade capture and market data updates through pricing, position aggregation, and risk calculation.
• Strong Java engineering skills, including high-performance and concurrent application design, latency and throughput optimization, JVM tuning, profiling, and memory management.
• Experience with event-driven, distributed messaging architectures, preferably Solace and Kafka.
• Proven ability to partner with Portfolio Managers, traders, quantitative developers, and global Technology teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear technical designs and provide production support for business-critical trading or risk platforms in a fast-paced front-office environment.