Qube Research & Technologies

Manages investments with systematic trading models

Software Engineer - Researcher Experience

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHong KongNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python.
Experience building internal tools, APIs, automation, or web applications.
Experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development tools.
Familiarity with cloud environments, containers, deployment workflows, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Ability to debug technical issues across several layers of a system.
Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A pragmatic approach to problem solving, with a focus on useful outcomes.
A user-centric mindset and the ability to understand user workflows, constraints, and pain points in depth.
Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools, systems, and domains.
Ability to build trust, credibility, and strong working relationships with researchers.

Responsibilities

Build backend services, APIs, automation scripts, dashboards, and lightweight web applications.
Deploy and operate internal applications using cloud, containers, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Improve onboarding, documentation, self-service workflows, and internal knowledge sharing.
Troubleshoot issues across applications, infrastructure, user environments, and integrations.
Work with engineering teams to improve adoption, usability, ownership, and supportability of internal platforms.
Contribute to secure, maintainable, observable, and scalable internal systems.
Work directly with researchers to understand their workflows, identify recurring pain points, and turn them into better tooling, automation, documentation, or platform improvements.

Desired Qualifications

Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

Your future role within QRT:

You will contribute to the efficiency of the technical environment of research. You will build and operate internal tools and services used by researchers across the firm. You will work directly with researchers to understand their workflows, identify recurring pain points, and turn them into better tooling, automation, documentation, or platform improvements.

Build backend services, APIs, automation scripts, dashboards, and lightweight web applications
Deploy and operate internal applications using cloud, containers, and CI/CD
Improve onboarding, documentation, self-service workflows, and internal knowledge sharing
Troubleshoot issues across applications, infrastructure, user environments, and integrations
Work with engineering teams to improve adoption, usability, ownership, and supportability of internal platforms
Contribute to secure, maintainable, observable, and scalable internal systems

Your current skillset:

Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python
Experience building internal tools, APIs, automation, or web applications
Experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development tools
Familiarity with cloud environments, containers, deployment workflows, and CI/CD
Ability to debug technical issues across several layers of a system
Clear written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Pragmatic approach to problem solving, with a focus on useful outcomes
Strong user-centric mindset, with the ability to understand user workflows, constraints, and pain points in depth
Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools, systems, and domains
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, credibility, and strong working relationships with researchers

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the Company

Qube Research & Technologies

Manages investments with systematic trading models

Qube Research & Technologies manages investment portfolios for investors, using scientific research and market data to guide its trading. It develops systematic strategies that turn research findings into rules for buying and selling, with risk controls used to manage portfolios across financial markets. The group operates through locally regulated investment-management entities in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, France, Singapore and Dubai, with strategies deployed globally to spread its portfolios across regions and markets. Investors place capital in its funds, and the firm earns fees for managing those assets and investment strategies. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: Not listed

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