Global Banking & Markets, Equity Electronic Market Making C++ Developer, Associate/Vice President, Hong Kong

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong; office-based role

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm founded in 1869, headquartered in New York with offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance modern C++ applications for electronic market-making and automated trading strategies.
• Build low-latency trading infrastructure, including market data handlers, execution gateways, pricing engines, and risk controls.
• Optimize critical trading components through profiling, latency analysis, concurrency improvements, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative strategists, and engineering teams to implement trading functionality and improve market-making performance.
• Develop monitoring tools and frameworks for system health, performance, and operational risk; participate in architecture, code reviews, testing, and production support.
• Support exchange onboarding, market-structure enhancements, new electronic-trading initiatives, and production issue resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Extensive experience with modern C++ including C++14/17/20.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and concurrent programming.
• Experience developing high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux environments, networking fundamentals, and system performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including diagnosing complex technical issues in production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with traders, strategists, and global engineering teams.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with electronic trading, market making, algorithmic trading, exchange connectivity, or market data systems.
• Knowledge of market microstructure, order lifecycle management, and exchange trading protocols.
• Experience with low-latency optimization, multithreading, lock-free programming, and performance profiling.
• Familiarity with messaging frameworks, real-time data processing, and distributed-system design.
• Python experience for testing, tooling, automation, or data analysis.
• Knowledge of risk management, pricing systems, or derivatives trading concepts.
• Experience working directly with trading desks in equities, futures, FX, rates, or other electronic markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, wellness programs, and personal finance offerings.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, professional growth, and reasonable accommodations during recruitment.