Quantitative Developer (Research Engineering)

Who We Are:

Y-Intercept (Hong Kong) Limited is a quantitative investment management firm dedicated to delivering high-quality returns, supported by tested and proven investment strategies across various asset classes and global financial markets.  We pride ourselves on and value intellectual curiosity and hard work, investing in people who are driven to learn and achieve.  We are a merit-focused and talent-driven organization, characterized by compassion, respect, and modesty among our team members.  We believe in maintaining a healthy and happy lifestyle in an intellectually stimulating environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain the central research platform, including event-driven simulation engines, and high-performance Python libraries for quantitative researchers
• Develop infrastructure that allows strategies to publish their signals efficiently, enabling aggregation and portfolio-level optimization
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and reproducibility, including parallelization, compute resource management, and tooling to ensure consistent research and production results
• Develop analytical frameworks that allow researchers to evaluate signal performance, visualize backtest results, and analyse risk metrics
• Manage and optimize containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) to ensure scalable and reproducible deployment of research models
• Monitor the status of production tasks and research jobs; actively perform troubleshooting and issue resolution to ensure platform stability and availability

Required Technical Qualification, Skills, and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or STEM field
• Advanced proficiency in Python. Ability to write clean, production-ready code with a focus on performance and maintainability
• Proficiency building and maintaining docker containers and managing deployments on Kubernetes (K8s)
• Proficiency in utilizing AWS services (e.g., EKS, S3, RDS)
• Familiarity with financial asset classes such as Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX, etc
• Self-motivated and disciplined with strong organizational skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively with research teams

Location:

Central, Hong Kong

Y-Intercept (Hong Kong) Limited is an equal opportunity employer.