Hong Kong Jobs - March 2021

Flexport (YC W14) | San Francisco, Amsterdam, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Chicago | Onsite, VISA | https://www.flexport.com

Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. We are revolutionizing a huge industry that touches every country on the planet, which means solving complex challenges. We are looking for makers who love learning, are passionate about collaborating, and desire to see the global impact of the solutions they build.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/flexport

View all of our jobs here: https://grnh.se/c0d6caef1

Tech Stack:

Frontend: React, Relay, Flow, Jest, Enzyme

Mobile: React Native, Apollo

Backend: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, Python, RSpec

CI: GitHub, Buildkite

Infrastructure: AWS, Python

Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible

## Roles we are hiring for

- Developers, documentation, UX: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.

- Platform as code: DevOps, infosec, documentation, process designers, team and tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, system / server administration

- Legal: #lawyerswhocode or who are very comfortable working with markdown in git

- Business: risk, operations, legal, compliance, finance, administrative, organisational design, documentation, internal communication, investor relations processes

- Investment: economics, analytics, portfolio research, investment research

- Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning

Location: Remote or sponsorship for a visa in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey

Term: full-time, fixed-term contract, flexible hours

## Languages

- Dlang (D)

- Julia

- Kotlin

- we do not use but value experience in modern C++, beautiful C, Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Elm

## Qualities and traits we value

- Courage and daring

- Phronesis (practical wisdom), common sense and commercial orientation

- Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be

- Highly individual people oriented to promoting survival and flourishing of the group

- Inclination and ability to notice and understand links between seemingly-unrelated things

- Curiosity

- Extreme motivation

- Mechanical sympathy

- Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities

- A love of tinkering

- Resourcefulness

- Good taste and love of beauty

## About Us

Symmetry Investments is a post startup USD 7 billion + alternative asset management company with around 220 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 what was initially a fairly standard enterprise finance technology approach 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. Andrei Alexandrescu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ) and Atila Neves (https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/) have been working with us as long-term consultants and we have many other talented people with lower public profiles.

It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming, but are oriented towards solving 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. SIL can compile and call C++ and D at runtime; Python interop is in alpha; and C# is on the way. 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 the tools we use.

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 - don't be surprised if our founder and CIO starts asking you questions about your work.

## Symmetry Talks

- Symmetry Internship Project - calling C++ from SIL (http://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#alexandru)

- 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)

## Links

- Symmetry GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments)

# Contact

- Email hiring at symmetry.dev and cc jthompson at symmetryinvestments dot com.

100x Group is the company behind the cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, BitMEX. As the genuine, authentic inventors of this market, we are recognized as the innovators of a product with most exchanges following our lead. We see over 60% of global volume and we have transacted over $1 trillion USD in volume in the last year. This lends itself to some incredibly exciting engineering challenges and we're actively hiring talented, ambitious individuals to help us solve them. Our engineering team sits at the core of the business and works on a cutting-edge tech stack (React.js, Node.js, Express, Typescript, Loopback). Our small, nimble team allows for the opportunity to make an incredibly high impact with untapped career growth potential The team prides itself on our high-reliability, high-expectations culture and we offer significant resources to invest in our team's success ($10k/year L&D budget, top of the line hardware, vendor software, and contract developers).

Further, we explore, incubate and pursue opportunities for investments, as part of our mission to reshape the modern digital financial system into an inclusive and empowering space. We are leaders in open source sponsorship & investment and our Research arm is viewed as one of the most respected resources in the field.

Our most pressing needs right now are for Senior Engineers on our Product Engineering team in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore, specifically) and Security Engineers in San Francisco; who will help us as we spearhead a financial market revolution that is growing by the day. Please refer to the attached job listings below for more details. We are happy to support relocation and accommodate Visa needs. We look forward to hearing from you!

Senior SWE (Web): https://boards.greenhouse.io/100x/jobs/4972210002 Senior SWE (API): https://boards.greenhouse.io/100x/jobs/4933072002 Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/100x/jobs/5101228002 Cryptographic Services Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/100x/jobs/5101494002