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Polymer Capital Hong Kong

Market-neutral, multi-manager investment platform in Asia

Back-End Engineer - Analyst, Risk & Quant Analytics

Full-TimePosted on 10/16/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Shanghai, China
In Person
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in front-end development, back-end development, or both.
  • Strong backend software engineering skills and experience developing data-intensive applications and processing large datasets.
  • Experience designing, developing, and operating data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, analytical data platforms, and workflow orchestration and scheduling tools such as Apache Airflow.
  • Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational support for business-critical data platforms.
  • Experience operating production-grade data platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational resilience.
  • Experience implementing data quality controls, data validation frameworks, and operational safeguards to ensure consistency across research and production environments.
  • Proficiency in English reading and writing; daily team communication is primarily in English, and limited speaking ability is acceptable.
Responsibilities
  • Develop end-to-end solutions covering market data pipelines, portfolio and factor calculation engines, database design, APIs, analytical tools, and user-facing applications.
  • Process large-scale financial datasets, maintain research-quality data platforms, and build systems that give quantitative researchers and portfolio managers access to timely, accurate, and reliable data.
  • Develop robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions while ensuring analytical accuracy and data integrity throughout the data lifecycle.
  • Use Agile and DevOps methodologies to iteratively refine products and manage build, test, deployment, monitoring, and operational support processes.
  • Maintain code quality through peer reviews, automated testing, Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native technologies, and operational excellence practices.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with C#, TypeScript, Python, React, FastAPI, and .NET Core.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, OLAP databases such as StarRocks, Apache Airflow, New Relic, Anaconda, RESTful APIs, WebSocket, and gRPC.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code using CDK or Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern observability platforms.
  • Experience designing performant data processing solutions for large-scale portfolio analytics and factor calculations; familiarity with concurrent processing, task parallelization, multithreading, distributed processing frameworks, or other techniques to reduce calculation time for portfolio exposures, factor loadings, risk metrics, and large-scale analytical workloads.
  • Strong mathematical and statistical foundations, including probability, correlation, covariance, regression analysis, linear algebra, matrix operations, and optimization techniques used in quantitative finance.
  • Experience building and supporting quantitative data platforms, including market data ingestion and processing, factor calculation engines, portfolio analytics systems, research databases and data marts, data distribution services and APIs, and high-volume analytical workloads requiring efficient data processing and computational optimization.
  • Understanding of portfolio factor models, factor exposures, factor loadings, risk models, security master data, corporate actions, benchmark data, and related investment management concepts.

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Polymer Capital Hong Kong

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Polymer Capital Management runs a market-neutral, multi-manager investment platform focused on Asia, backed by institutional support and deep local market knowledge through a PAG partnership since 2019. It aggregates capital across multiple investment managers and strategies to maintain market-neutral exposures, aiming to diversify risk while accessing Asia opportunities. Its edge comes from combining a regional focus with a disciplined, multi-manager structure and strong backing, plus a model that develops local investment talent within the platform. Its goal is to deliver attractive, risk-adjusted returns by exposing capital to Asia-focused opportunities within a structured, diversified framework.

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Headquarters

Hong Kong

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • August 2026 Reuters called Polymer the best-performing Asia multi-strategy fund in first half.
  • Micron became a fifth-largest holding by September 2026, aligning with AI memory demand.
  • Japan-focused launches expand product breadth and deepen the firm’s regional franchise.

What critics are saying

  • July 2026 losses of 6.9% show crowded Japan and semiconductor exposure.
  • Reuters said Polymer trimmed first-half gains to 11.5% after the selloff.
  • Macro buildout under Rohan Kohli lags competitors if talent and AUM stagnate.

What makes Polymer Capital Hong Kong unique

  • Hong Kong platform runs multi-strategy capital across equity, quant, and macro books.
  • March 2025 Japan launch targets $500 million and 30 portfolio managers.
  • May 2026 Coremont partnership strengthens real-time macro analytics and risk infrastructure.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Gym Membership
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Paid Vacation

Company News

The Business Times
Aug 6th, 2026
Asia multi-strategy hedge funds see big monthly drawdowns amid brutal sell-off in AI stocks.

Asia multi-strategy hedge funds see big monthly drawdowns amid brutal sell-off in AI stocks. Concerns over AI spending, Middle East conflict sparked heavy selling in semiconductor stocks, hammering Asian chip giants Published Thu, Aug 6, 2026 · 11:43 AM * Among individual funds, Hong Kong-based Polymer Capital Management was the best-performing Asia multi-strategy fund in the first half. PHOTO: ZB [HONG KONG] Some large Asian multi-strategy funds suffered their biggest drawdown this year in July as a brutal sell-off in AI stocks across Japan, South Korea and China eroded gains accumulated in the first half, sources close to the funds said on Wednesday (Aug 5). Positions that had powered gains during the first half became a source of pain in July, as concerns over AI spending and the Middle East conflict sparked heavy selling in semiconductor stocks, hammering Asian chip giants. The multi-strategy funds fared better than the broader industry, with some of the largest dropping between 3 and 9 per cent in July, while Goldman Sachs estimated that Asia's main stock-picking hedge funds fell 15.2 per cent over last month, the steepest monthly drop on record. Still, a monthly loss exceeding 5 per cent is significant for the multi-strategy platform funds, investors said, as they hire multiple managers that direct investments across everything from equities and fixed income, to macro and commodities, aiming to smooth volatility and ensure low correlation to market direction. Divergence likely to persist. The divergence in hedge fund performance is likely to persist, with AI-driven disruption and a high interest-rate environment rewarding some managers while challenging others, market participants said. Among individual funds, Hong Kong-based Polymer Capital Management, for instance, was the best-performing Asia multi-strategy fund in the first half. The fund, which oversees more than US$6 billion, lost 6.9 per cent in July, trimming its year-to-date gains to 11.5 per cent, according to a source familiar with its performance. Asean intelligence. Get insights into businesses across South-east Asia The pullback was partly due to its equity positions in Japan, another source said. South Korea's benchmark Kospi Index slumped 22 per cent in July while Japan's Nikkei 225 declined 8 per cent. Elsewhere, Singapore's US$9 billion Dymon Asia multi-strategy fund posted a similar negative return of 6.5 per cent, narrowing its January-to-July gain to 7.5 per cent, sources said, while Singapore-based Arrowpoint Investment Partners posted a milder 2.6 per cent loss. Also, Hong Kong-headquartered Pinpoint Asset Management's main multi-strategy fund retreated 9 per cent in July, sources said. Arrowpoint, founded by former Millennium Asia co-CEO Jonathan Xiong, reduced fund level risk ahead of July after identifying signs of excessive leverage in the market, including a growing reluctance among banks to extend incremental leverage for certain positions in South Korea and Taiwan. The move helped cushion performance, a source with knowledge of the fund said. Polymer and Arrowpoint declined to comment. REUTERS Share with us your feedback on BT's products and services

EQDerivatives
Sep 18th, 2024
Polymer Capital To Build Out Macro Biz

Polymer Capital Management hired Rohan Kohli, a former portfolio manager at Brevan Howard, to help build out the firm's macro business in Hong Kong.