Senior Market Data Platform Engineer – HFT / Quant Trading

Hytech

📍 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong On-Site ⏳ 14h ago
AI assistant

Job Description

We are looking for a senior Market Data Platform Engineer to build and optimize high-performance data infrastructure supporting quantitative research, trading, and execution. This role sits close to the trading business and requires a strong understanding of how market data is consumed—not just how databases are built.

We are particularly interested in candidates from buy-side quantitative trading, proprietary trading, HFT, or systematic investment firms, rather than traditional banking environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize market data platforms and databases supporting quantitative research, trading, and execution.
  • Build and maintain pipelines for real-time/live market data, including tick, order book, trade, reference, and other trading-related datasets.
  • Own data ingestion, cleansing, normalization, validation, storage and distribution to ensure high-quality and reliable datasets.
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