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.
Skills Required
- University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another quantitative field
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- At least 5 years of software development experience
- Strong software development skills in Python
- Strong software development skills in Golang
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems
- Proficiency in Docker
- Proficiency in Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Kafka
- Front-office and financial markets experience
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
