full-time
Algorithmic Trading Engineer
HSBC
- Employer
- HSBC
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Working pattern
- on-site
About the role
Design and support robust, scalable, highly available distributed trading platforms, with a focus on algorithmic trading and low-latency execution. Apply technology to trading risk management and continuous improvement in a highly regulated financial environment. Requires expert-level applied Java experience and solid Scala experience or the ability to learn it quickly, along with deep knowledge of equities trading, order lifecycles, FIX messaging, and Asian markets. Candidates should have hands-on algorithmic trading and sub-microsecond execution platform experience, plus knowledge of zero-GC architectures, microbenchmarking, the Linux kernel, PTP, and packet-capture-based latency monitoring.