Quantitative Developer - Python at Qube Research & Technologies (Hong Kong)
Qube Research & Technologies· Hong Kong·
Job description
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.
Your future role within QRT
- A key member of the development team, building and enhancing key components for QRT
- Building and supporting new quantitative trading framework software
- Designing clean architecture and leveraging state of the art tools and components
- Alerting: Define alert thresholds, reduce alert noise, and ensure actionable and meaningful alerts
- Incident Response: Develop and optimize on-call processes and incident response playbooks. Participate in the on-call rotation
- Service Reliability: Analyze system performance metrics and conduct root cause analysis for outages and degradations
- Automation: Automate response to common issues and improve self-healing capabilities
- Collaboration: Partner with development teams to instrument applications and ensure SLIs/SLOs/SLAs are well-defined and tracked
Your present skillset
- 2-10 years’ professional experience
- Advanced skills in one or several programming languages
- Strong Python skills for automation and scripting, very high standards in code quality and good development practices
- Knowledge of real-time systems, high performance computing and quantitative applications an advantage
- Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS specifically is a plus)
- Experience working in a high-availability, low-latency environment
QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Why work at Qube Research & Technologies
- Compensation & Career Growth: Highly competitive pay. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Over 40% of staff are in a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance. Glassdoor rating of 4.1/5.0, with compensation (4.0) and career opportunities (4.1) as top highlights.
- Culture & Demographics: Young, high-performance culture (74% of staff aged 40 or under, 38% aged 30 or under). 90% of staff reported good team morale in an internal survey. Described as a "fertile ground for experimental research."
- Work Environment: Hybrid/office-based depending on role and location. Offices in London (HQ), Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Dubai, Mumbai, Geneva, and more. New London office in Victoria.
- Notable Perks: Deferred compensation plan with fund performance exposure. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Strong focus on work-life balance initiatives.
- Engineering Culture: Heavy emphasis on technology (Python, C++, C#, Snowflake, FPGA, low-latency systems, MLflow, Kubernetes). 22% of staff are in Research roles, 6% in Technical roles. Strong support for coding initiatives and academic projects in maths and science.