What Jobs are available for Backend Staff in Hong Kong?

Responsibilities:

Develop Restful APIs

Develop and maintain servers with Nodejs/Python/MSSQL

Requirement:

Diploma or Degree holder in Information Technology, Computer Science or related disciplines

At least 3 years relevant working experience

Good hands-on experience in Nodejs/Python/.Net

Proficiency in MSSQL and querying

Knowledge in IIS/NGINX for Windows Server

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Good at troubleshooting

Interested parties please email your full resume with availability and expected salary.

• Large scale of project experience
• Stable working environment
• Competitive Package

Job Description
We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer who is passionate about building high-quality systems. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in backend development and will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

Requirements

• Degree in IT or above
• 4-8 years hands-on development experience for Java programming
• Experience in IT / Finance / Government projects is a significant advantage.
• Experience in System design, microservices and system architect is preferable
• Familiarity with Java Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, Openshift, Kubernetes and web services.
• Experience in leading a team of Programmer in troubleshooting, debugging and implementation of enhancements
• Good technical documentation and communication skills
• Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and systems
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in both English and Chinese.

EQ Real-Time PL & Risk is a front office team responsible for the design, development and support of various technology platforms that enable our businesses to view, evaluate, hedge and trade the live position, PL and risk. We build and own the platforms that provide the entire firm with T0 unofficial and live risk and PL.

Responsibilities

• Work with the R & D and application development teams to assist in design, prototype and implementation of next generation high-performance real time analytics solutions in the industry to scale with the business
• Assist the team in building out a market leading portfolio PL and Risk platform for latency critical processes with high visibility among trading teams as well as management teams.
• Work with different technologies to provide the state-of-the-art intraday analytics platforms used in various risk and portfolio management systems across the entire firm
• Contribute to application development and architecture of highly scalable real time platforms

Qualifications, Skills And Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in KDB+ q application development on Linux along with good understanding of the Linux operating system.
• Experience in writing and maintaining Feed handlers, real-time and historical databases with exploring optimization opportunities in the way we store/query/process data
• Experience in working with multiple q processes interacting with each other in tandem and with routines written in C/C++/Python via IPC/WS/HTTP.
• Experience in writing clean testable code
• Basic understanding of Computer Networking
• Experience working with various monitoring tools like Datadog, ELK stack etc.
• A strong interest in financial markets and a desire to work directly with investment professionals
• Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others
• Drive to learn and experiment

Nice-to-have

• Experience building large-scale real-time portfolio risk and PL engines
• Experience re-building platforms to scale horizontally with the business
• Experience with KDB+ q or interfacing C/C++ with KDB

Job Description

• Designing and implementing data acquisition systems via APIs (e.g., Bloomberg, Binance, Deribit) or web scraping to collect financial market data
• Developing and optimizing database architectures to ensure efficient storage and retrieval of financial information
• Building secure and scalable RESTful APIs to support frontend applications
• Ensuring data integrity and security across all systems
• Collaborating with frontend developers and internal stakeholders to refine project requirements
• Writing clean, maintainable, and testable code

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related disciplines
• Strong programming skills with solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with databases and storage technologies such as Redis, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and MongoDB
• Understanding of common architectural principles including but not limited to microservices, asynchronous processing, high availability, and scalability
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with a strong sense of responsibility
• Self-motivated with a proactive attitude toward learning and problem-solving

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in financial domains such as equities, futures, options, or cryptocurrencies
• Familiarity with financial market data formats including candlestick charts (K-line), order books, etc.
• Experience with web scraping and a strong product-oriented mindset

Job ID: 42240

Location: Quarry Bay, HK

Area of interest: Ventures

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Oct 2025

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Job Description

Welcome to BlockAI, a Hong Kong-based web3 company developing software applications serving users worldwide, fostering the adoption of blockchain and AI technology since 2018.

Comprising a team of software engineers, blockchain researchers, and marketing experts, we aim to deliver our first product—an automatic, seamless user experience in real-time financial and on-chain data analysis, supporting traders and investors to aggregate crypto market sentiment and formulate their own strategies. Headquartered in Hong Kong. Office located in 5 mins walk from Quarry Bay MTR station.

As a member of our small and growing team, you will have the opportunity to work on building up trading tools for web3 environment, collaborate with expert in the field, and be a part of a dynamic and rapidly growing industry. We believe blockchain will continue to act as an critical global infrastructure, while leveraging those open data on-chain can make a impact for the industry and world at large.

As a Backend Developer, you will have good career prospect to become project leader and senior management.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with frontend developer, blockchain engineer and other backend developer for web3 backend development.
• Collaborate with blockchain engineer to extract data on-chain / off-chain
• Design, lead, develop API, microservices, scripts, and GraphQL endpoints.
• Create and manage servers and databases, including PostgreSQL, for functionality.
• ETL of useful information from data
• Implement and maintain message queue systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka) to ensure efficient data processing and communication.

What you'll bring:

• A passion for creating backend application and using the latest tools and APIs
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• A high standard for clean code
• Experience writing unit tests
• Good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through launch

What you'll need:

• 2+ years experience in system design and backend development.
• Degree in computer science or related disciplines
• Experience with PostgreSQL for database management.
• Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Hands-on experience with message queue systems such as RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with using git and Github
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design best practices
• Demonstrated skills in writing high-quality, readable, well-architected and efficient code
• Experience with Agile development methodology, and tools (Jira)
• Passion for data analytics
• Interest in learning how backend application can interact with web3 / blockchain. Guidance will be fully supplied.
• Less experience would be considered as junior position

Would be nice to have:

• Proficiency in Golang
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, such as CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, or cloud platforms.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• A history of doing cool and difficult stuff
• Interest in financial engineering
• Good command of spoken and written in Cantonese / English

About the role

We're looking for a hands-on Backend Engineer to help us build and maintain reliable backend services on AWS. You'll focus on APIs, data flows, and integrations that power our web and mobile experiences. Ideal if you've connected third-party platforms like Salesforce, Shopify, and push notification providers.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS/Postgres or DynamoDB, SQS).
• Implement integrations with Salesforce (REST/Bulk APIs), Shopify, and push notifications (OneSignal or similar).
• Write clean, well-documented API endpoints (REST/GraphQL) and maintain clear schema/contracts.
• Set up basic CI/CD and monitoring; contribute to Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform) with guidance.
• Ensure security, reliability, and performance basics: authentication/authorization, input validation, caching, logs/metrics/alerts.
• Collaborate with frontend/mobile teams to deliver features on time and with quality.

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend development experience preferred; PHP or Python a plus).
• Practical experience building on AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudFront; RDS/Postgres or DynamoDB; SQS).
• Comfortable with REST APIs; exposure to GraphQL helpful.
• Experience integrating at least one of: Salesforce, Shopify, or OneSignal (or similar).
• Understanding of authentication best practices (OAuth/JWT, IAM basics) and OWASP fundamentals.
• Clear communication in English and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience with webhooks, event-driven patterns (SNS/SQS, Redis), and rate limiting.
• Familiarity with headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity, Prismic, Hygraph, WordPress headless).
• Exposure to integrations and preview environments.
• Terraform basics and setting up simple CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

Algo & Infrastructure

Shenzhen/Hong Kong

Full-Time

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain quality, scalable and high-performing real time trading and analysis applications; from conception right through to delivery
• Balance the need for the quick delivery with designing and building quality, scalable trading architecture that meets the short and long term needs of the business
• Develop high-volume, low-latency financial database
• Create and maintain documentation around features and configuration to save our users time
• Keep code easy to maintain and keep it easy for others to contribute

Job Requirements

• Bachelor/Master in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• 2~3 years of professional experience in Financial/Brokage Industry
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Golang
• A solid understanding of software construction
• The ability to naturally follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc
• An awareness of the following technologies: MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Docker, Kafka, Git, Jenkins Fluent in Mandarin and English

Personality Fit

• Innovative & strives for continuous technological advancement
• Self-directed and working productively under minimal supervision
• Excellent in explaining complex technical issues to non-technical personnel
• Able to manage multiple streams of communications and quick in adaptability and shifting priority based on business needs
• Innovative & strives for continuous technological advancement; Passionate in Fin-tech field & Financial Markets

EDPS Systems Limited is currently seeking a Backend Developer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs (RESTful / GraphQL) with strong logical workflows.

Lead and optimise ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for ingesting and transforming data from diverse internal/external sources.

Work extensively with JSON data formats for API communication and configuration.

Build and maintain data collection pipelines to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable system data flows.

Collaborate with data engineers and software teams to support AI/ML model integration into backend services.

Manage both relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases with performance and security in mind.

Apply QA testing principles : write unit/integration tests for APIs and ETL workflows, support automated test pipelines, and follow the team's QA workflow to ensure reliability.

Participate in Agile sprints , contributing to CI/CD pipelines and peer reviews.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise backend systems for performance and fault tolerance.

Participate in deployment workflows , understanding progression from development → staging → production.

Collaborate with frontend and data engineers to ensure smooth system integration.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.

2+ year backend development experience (junior–mid level).

Proficiency in at least one backend language ( , Python, or Java ).

Solid experience working with JSON for API communication.

Basic knowledge of API design (REST/GraphQL) and microservices concepts.

Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases ( PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB ).

Understanding of deployment workflows (staging, production, CI/CD basics).

Experience with Git for version control and team collaboration.

Preferred (Bonus) Skills:

Exposure to ETL tools (Airflow, Luigi) or custom ETL pipelines.

Familiarity with AI/ML system integration .

Knowledge of real-time streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerisation basics (Docker).

Salary:

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application:

Please submit your resume along with your current and expected salary. Personal data collected will be treated confidentially for recruitment purposes. Candidates not invited for an interview within six weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Personal data collected will be handled confidentially by authorized personnel for recruitment-related purposes.

Address:

Room 1202, 12/F, Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

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