Flow Traders is looking for a Quantitative Developer to join us in our Hong Kong office. 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 Quantitative Developer, you will be responsible for helping to lead the development of our trading model research framework and its integration with our platform for deploying/running those models in production. You'll be responsible for expanding the current (limited) scope of the framework and platform to become the global standard way of training, consuming, combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way.

What You Will Do

• Participate in the development and global rollout of our research platform for defining and training mid term alpha models through various optimization procedures
• Integration of research platform for deploying and running those models in production
• Develop tools/frameworks for use by quants and technical traders to test hypotheses and tune/develop data-driven/systematic portfolio optimization
• Work with quants and technical traders to further refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of new research tools and platform improvements
• Support local Quants during platform usage

What You Need to Succeed

The ideal candidate is a full stack developer with a deep understanding of data engineering and model optimization/management/scheduling.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python with exposure to data science, analytics, or related fields
• Experience with statistical analysis, numerical programming or ML libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn nice to have
• Proficiency in data wrangling, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis.
• Familiarity with databases and query languages for data extraction and transformation.
• Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices and tools (e.g. Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior professional financial experience is not required, an enthusiasm for financial markets and quantitative trading is highly beneficial
• University degree in a relevant field (computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, physics, or a related STEM field)

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

• Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
• Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
• In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
• Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
• Global rotations between our offices worldwide
• and more!

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.