About this role
Position Description We are a leading and fast-growing Chinese investment bank seeking an experienced Quant Developer to join our Equity Derivatives desk. You will work closely with traders, structurers, and quantitative teams to develop and support high-performance systems for trading, execution, pricing, and risk management. Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain front-office applications and services supporting the Equity Derivatives business. • Build high-performance systems for trading, execution, market-data processing, pricing analytics, hedging, and risk management. • Partner closely with traders, structurers, quantitative analysts, and technology teams to understand business requirements and deliver production-ready solutions. • Develop scalable Python- and TypeScript-based applications, including backend services, APIs, workflow tools, and user-facing interfaces. • Integrate applications with trading platforms, market-data services, risk systems, and external/internal connectivity. • Work with middleware and messaging technologies, including FIX, Redis, WebSocket, message queues, and databases. • Improve the performance, reliability, observability, and resilience of existing trading and risk-management systems. • Implement robust software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, CI/CD, version control, release management, and production monitoring. • Investigate and resolve production incidents, trading-support issues, data-quality problems, and system-performance bottlenecks. • Contribute to technical architecture, development standards, and the long-term evolution of the desk technology platform. Requirements
• Master’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative field. • 4+ years of experience developing trading, execution, or risk-management systems. • Strong Python and TypeScript development skills; experience with Java, C++, or C# is a plus. • Experience building high-performance, real-time, or distributed systems. • Solid software engineering fundamentals: design, testing, CI/CD, Git, Linux, debugging, and performance optimization. • Familiarity with FIX, Redis, WebSocket, message queues, and databases. • Strong problem-solving and communication skills. What We Offer
• This is a front desk position. • A fast and clear career progression path. • Direct partnership with front-office stakeholders. • Opportunity to work on impactful Equity Derivatives trading and risk systems in a leading investment bank.
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