Python Engineer, Trading Automation

Flow Traders is looking for a Python Engineer to join our growing Trading Automation team in Hong Kong. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.

As a member of Trading Automation team, you will work within our technology landscape on creating direct impact for our core business through the development of applications that enhances data frameworks, streamline workflows, facilitate efficiency, and unlock growth prospects. In this role, you will be responsible for developing applications, services, and pipelines that deliver value through automation. Your actions will directly contribute to the performance of the company. You will also get the opportunity to interact and work closely with the global Trading Automation team and different departments to gain a well-rounded knowledge of start-to-end trading landscape, how they function and integrate within our ecosystem.

 

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with various local and global stakeholders to deliver solutions for trading and other business units
• Deliver & own the full lifecycle for real-time software, API services and ETL pipelines
• Seek out and identify inefficiencies and implement automation solutions
• Work on both global and local business priorities

What You Need to Succeed

• University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other quantitative fields
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• 5+ years working experience in software development with front-office & financial markets experience preferred
• Strong software development skills in Python, Golang
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems'
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka (knowledge of distributed systems is advantageous)

 

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.