Hong Kong Jobs - July 2020

Symmetry Investments | Senior Software Engineers and DevOps | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Symmetry Investments is a post startup c. 5bn alternative asset management company with around 175 people across multiple time zones and locations. Our core technology team has been remote first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID.

I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm.

We are three years into a period of transformation from initially a fairly standard enterprise finance approach to technology to something new that recognises the importance of both the humane and the technical for discretionary portfolio management and for the business of running an alternative investment manager.

It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming but are oriented towards solving their business problems with developers who are specialists in programming. To achieve this, we wrote a little functional DSL that's now in production. Type inference of returns and parameters using inequality constraints is in a feature branch and there is plenty more to do on the language itself as well as the ecosystem around it. What might be a project in itself elsewhere can be just a set of functions in Symmetry Integration Language.

The language is written in D, we hosted dconf last year and will do so again this year. So we are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners writing Symmetry Integration Language. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.

It's quite a creative place where we encourage a degree of courage amidst practical constraints, and we are open to doing things a different way if it's commercially sound and in the interests of our investors.

We look for virtues and capabilities over only experience and credentials although those things aren't a disadvantage. Do not let a lack of credentials or qualifications prevent you from applying. We've recently hired experts with C++, Common Lisp, D, Haxe, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with our stack.

Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards but is generous to very generous over time by broad technology industry standards. We recognise and reward technical accomplishment and have a very flat structure.

Some Symmetry people: All Spreadsheets Must Die (https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk), Lessons from a DSL where all you have is Ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuzSlKRmzA), Alternative Investment Management (https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis)

Please see our GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments), blog.dlang.org and Symmetry Autumn of Code (https://dlang.org/blog/2019/08/25/saoc-2019-projects-and-par...)

Email laeeth at kaleidic.io and cc jthompson at symmetryinvestments dot com.

StashAway (FinTech) | Backend Engineer (Scala) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Singapore (HQ), Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur

StashAway is the leading digital wealth manager (=retail robo advisor) in Singapore and South East Asia.

We have built our trading system that powers all of our investing services and manages customers’ assets on top of Scala / Akka & Cassandra using the Lagom framework for event sourcing and CQRS. Lightbend has published a case study on us which explains some of the challenges that you will be facing in the role: https://www.lightbend.com/case-studies/digital-wealth-automa...

This backend engineering role is focused on driving performance and scalability of our trading framework in a small team and is technically very challenging. Only engineers with at least 3-4y of experience please. Experience with Scala and/or Event Sourcing is a big plus, but not a must. You must have prior experience with the JVM though, and ideally explored functional programming before.

Remote option available, alternatively we can provide visa to one of our offices listed above.

Job Posting: https://stashaway-jobs.personio.de/job/183646

Apply at: online, or jointheteam@stashaway.com