Senior Algorithmic Trading Engineer at HSBC · Hong Kong

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Algorithmic Trading Engineer.

In this role you will:

• Building a scalable and highly-available algorithmic trading platform across Asia
• Making strategic decisions that affect the design and architecture of this platform
• Working closely with the front-office trading and product teams to ensure fast and accurate delivery of new functionality and improvements
• Liaising with local compliance and other risk/control teams to ensure full compliance with the letter and spirit of all relevant regulatory guidelines and requirements
• Constant communication with the larger global team: collaborative development, reviews and strategic decision making

To be successful you will need:

• Have expert-level, applied Java experience including the JVM, garbage collection, data structures and non-blocking IO.
• Have solid, applied experience with Scala development (or be willing to learn fast).
• Posses deep knowledge of equities trading including the order lifecycle, FIX messaging and Asian markets.
• Understand the design and architecture of robust, scalable and highly available distributed trading platforms.
• Be a passionate advocate for technology, technological solutions and continuous improvement.
• Understand risk, risk management and the role technology plays in this highly regulated environment
• Be fluent in written and spoken English and an excellent communicator.
• Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading and low-latency (sub-micro) execution platforms.
• Zero GC architectures.
• Micro benchmarking.
• Knowledge of the Linux kernel.
• Knowledge of PTP and packet capture based latency monitoring.