Description
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Software Engineer.
In this role you will work in a team of 8 developers within the Hong Kong Structured Products Technology Team to help build strategic Equity Derivatives trading infrastructure.
You will excel in AI-enabled development and have a proven track record of writing high-quality code, following modern best practices, and proposing solutions to a technical and business audience.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Improving controls over the Equity Derivatives trading and/or operations tools, which will involve analysing, understanding existing tools (Excel/VBA) and either re-designing/re-writing them in a target framework in Java/Kotlin or partially re-designing them to start the path towards demise
- Managing end to end projects, such as requirement gathering, development, UAT, deployment and supporting users post deployment
- Regular interaction with the Structuring and Sales desks and working on local and global tactical and semi strategic platforms
To be successful you will need:
- Excellent AI-enabled development experience with OO or functional programming styles in Java, Kotlin and C#
- A passion to drive the adoption of modern best practices including test driven development, devops, agile methodologies
- Experience of working in a team of developers in a complex global environment
- Ability to own the entire project cycle and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
- Motivation towards understanding further the Equity Derivatives business
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
- Experience of equity derivatives products either Derivative Pricing or Risk Management
- Knowledge of containerisation / orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes would be advantageous
- Experience of using noSql databases such as MongoDB
- Up to date strategic skills in event-driven architecture and web services
- Growth mindset, adaptable to agile development