APAC Cash Equities Post-Trade SME / Python Engineer 6-month Contract
Job Purpose:
BTIG is seeking a talented Hong Kong-based applicant to join our team for 6-months to help deliver and harden new settlement and OMS (Order Management System) workflows. The platform is a Python-based service that generates, validates, transmits, and reconciles settlement output and related internal workflow artefacts. This role is functionally led but technically hands-on. You should be able to reason clearly about allocations, executions, settlement, transmission, and reconciliation, and then turn that understanding into reliable Python changes in a production codebase.
You will work with the existing engineering team split between Hong Kong and Sydney, along with relevant middle-office and operations stakeholders. You can expect:
- Direct collaboration with engineers for technical design and code review.
- Exposure to operations and workflow stakeholders so business rules can be clarified quickly.
- Practical exposure to a team workflow that makes regular use of GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development techniques.
- Regular check-ins on progress, blockers, and priorities during the 6-month term.
You will also join a team that is making serious use of GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted software development in day-to-day engineering. If you want to build practical skills in AI-assisted coding, code review, refactoring, and developer workflow in a real production setting, this role gives you that opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Automate and streamline Operations daily settlement and order management feeds to Finance (straight-through processing).
- Deliver Python changes across transformation, filtering, merge, finalisation, persistence, transmission, and reconciliation logic.
- Work through workflow issues that cut across code, data, reference mappings, and operational process.
- Partner with engineering, middle office, and operations users to clarify business rules, exceptions, and edge cases.
- Investigate discrepancies between expected and actual settlement outputs and help drive root-cause resolution.
Requirements:
Functional / Domain
- Solid understanding of cash equities post-trade workflows.
- Good grasp of allocations, executions, settlement dates, settlement-sensitive logic, and downstream operational impacts.
- Ability to translate partially defined business rules into deterministic system behavior and test cases.
- Comfort working with operations users on breaks, reconciliations, and exception scenarios.
Technical
- Demonstrable Python engineering experience in production systems.
- Solid SQL and PostgreSQL skills.
- Experience with pandas and core Python data-processing libraries.
- Good automated testing discipline.
- Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted engineering tools productively in day-to-day development.
- Comfort working in Docker-based development environments.
Preferred
- Experience with cash settlement, reconciliation, or file-based downstream interfaces.
- Experience with OMS-fed and middle-office-fed capital markets processes.
- Relevant experience typically gained through 2+ years in cash equities post-trade workflows, 3+ years Python development, and 2+ years working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
- Familiarity with Fidessa, FIX (Financial Information Exchange) protocol, or similar platforms.
Important Notes:
- Must be authorized to work full time in Hong Kong. BTIG does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type.
- Hybrid arrangements may be available depending on project phase and business needs.
About BTIG:
BTIG is a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services. With an extensive global footprint and more than 700 employees, BTIG, LLC and its affiliates operate out of 20 cities throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTIG offers execution, expertise and insights for equities, equity derivatives, ETFs and fixed income, currency and commodities. The firm’s core capabilities include global execution, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.
BTIG is committed to an equal employment opportunity environment. In accordance with applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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