Algo Developer - Global Investment Management Firm - Hong Kong

Our client, a global investment management firm, are actively seeking an Algo Developer to design and develop high-performance trading algorithms and related execution/trade-capture components. You will build, enhance, and maintain algorithmic trading systems, focusing on correctness, low-latency/performance, reliability, and operational excellence.

The role:

• Develop and maintain their algorithmic trading platform using Java.
• Build and optimize backend components that support order lifecycle management, execution workflows, and trade capture.
• Implement real-time decisioning and event-driven processing for market and portfolio signals.
• Integrate with internal/external trading and market data systems (APIs, feeds, messaging where applicable).
• Ensure system reliability with robust testing, monitoring, and incident support.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and iterative delivery with quant/research and trading operations teams.
• Improve performance and throughput (latency, resource usage) while maintaining code quality.
• Create/maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks for systems under your ownership.

What you offer:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience in core Java.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization.
• Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Solid knowledge of concurrency/multithreading, and event-driven or reactive programming patterns.
• Experience integrating with market data and trading/execution systems
• Proficiency with Linux and debugging production issues.
• Strong engineering practices: unit/integration testing, code reviews, Git-based development, and CI/CD exposure.
• Prior experience in algorithmic trading, electronic trading, or capital markets technology highly preferred.
• Knowledge of FIX or other order management protocols.