Are you ready to take the next step in your career in the area of intellectually challenging development work in a growing organisation that is changing Financial Technology? FinFabrik is offering that, plus excellent growth opportunities and a flexible setup.
The short story
- R&D software developer intern for enterprise software engineering
- Highly dynamic early-stage company and environment
- Attractive package and location
- Ambitious, informal team and flexible work setup
The details
Our venture
FinFabrik is a Financial Technology Solutions Builder based in Hong Kong, focused on capital markets tech. We develop platforms that our corporate clients use to bring investment services such as trading to their customers. FinFabrik builds the solutions for a FinServ future that will be digital and highly automated, focused on user experience.
The FinFabrik team is at the core of our journey - a diverse group of people propelled by curiosity, a drive to create and the enthusiasm to learn every day. Together, we think and debate, we work hard, we laugh a lot and celebrate success.
The product
Your work will be around one of our core products: BrokerFabrik (www.brokerfabrik.com) is a next-generation online platform that Financial Institutions use to offer trading services to their customers. Being already used by our first clients, it changes the way retail investors actively create, manage and balance their portfolio to improve their returns.
The platform is built from the ground up with state-of-the-art design principles, technologies and engineering practices. We want to offer our ultimate users an outstanding investment experience and powerful trading and portfolio management tools through the use of analytics, visualisation and actionable insights.
Your position and what you will add
We are looking for a self-driven team player as an engineer intern to assume control of our source code and software engineering practices. You will be joining the core team to develop, integrate and test server-side software components and services making up our trading platform while maintaining the quality and integrity of our overall system architecture.
You will play an essential role to support our R&D efforts around data analytics-driven features, involving work on big data analytics, data visualisation, dashboard development and operational excellence.
You will be a central and active part of a fast-paced, pragmatic and collaborative environment and a diverse group of people working in different setups and locations. Being hands-on in development work, translating user requirements into logical modules and clean code, effectively coordinating tasks as well as integrating and testing software components and services will be essential.
We expect from each other highest quality work, adaptive thinking, the ambition to have an impact, contrarian views and to boldly push into unknown territory while maintaining vision and responsibility.
Location
- Hong Kong - we love it here!
- If needed, we will help with sorting out visa requirements
- Our company offers flexible remote working arrangements after an initial phase of being on location to integrate with the team
- Our brand-new offices are on Hong Kong Island
Package
- Competitive pay
- Bonus program
- Tuition and training reimbursement
Ideal skills and experience profile
If you are not a perfect match with the skills laid out below but think you would add to our team, please let us know why.
Experience
- Bachelors or Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- No prior experience required
- Practical understanding of any of the following areas will be a plus:
- Java technologies; design and development of large scale enterprise applications
- Web technologies; design and development of RESTful web services
- Database applications, eg, NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Trading and order execution systems (FIX protocol)
- Financial Markets, online trading/ brokerage domain knowledge in equities
Skills
- Linux OS and scripting
- Web technologies and standards
- Strong programming concepts and design knowledge
- Agile software development
Why we think you should apply
- Change the future of Financial Services - and yes, it needs changing
- Do challenging and interesting engineering work
- Work with experienced professionals across banking, strategy and technology
- Join an open and informal, yet ambitious team that embraces differences in people
- Actively shape and help build a champion in a highly dynamic field and geography - we win together and share our success
- Develop new skills, learn from your colleagues as much as you teach them
- Enjoy an attractive package and location with a flexible work setup