Jobs at Rock Bund Capital (Now Hiring) — 2 open

The Role

What You Will Do

• Lead the 0-to-1 buildout of Rock Bund Capital’s Asia trading infrastructure, with China as the initial priority and Korea, Taiwan, and India as future expansion markets.
• Source, evaluate, onboard, and manage external counterparties, including brokers, execution channels, exchanges, prime brokers, clearing partners, market-data vendors, and infrastructure providers.
• Drive commercial and operational discussions with counterparties, including market access, connectivity options, commission / fee schedules, market-data terms, financing / borrow capabilities, onboarding timelines, service-level expectations, and escalation paths.
• Own the China market-access setup across A-shares, Stock Connect, and commodity futures, coordinating with brokers, exchanges, legal, compliance, traders, and internal technology teams.
• Assess market-access routes and understand the practical implications of Stock Connect, QFII / RQFII, and other relevant access structures, including account setup, trading rules, settlement, reporting, operational constraints, and control requirements.
• Work with traders and strategists to understand trading requirements, then translate them into concrete workflows, system requirements, acceptance criteria, UAT plans, and go-live checklists for engineering and operations teams.
• Partner with engineering teams on trading connectivity and infrastructure requirements, including FIX / API workflows, order routing, drop copy, market-data feeds, OMS / EMS integration, gateway testing, and production support expectations.
• Coordinate market-data and infrastructure setup, including exchange feeds, vendor data, entitlements, licensing, connectivity, proximity hosting, and co-location where relevant.
• Establish pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade operating controls, including exchange rule checks, trading limits, kill-switch procedures, reconciliation workflows, incident escalation, and production runbooks.
• Understand securities borrowing and lending requirements where relevant, including borrow availability, locates, short-selling eligibility, borrow cost, recall risk, and how borrow constraints affect systematic trading strategies.
• Own go-live readiness across internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that the trading flow is operationally sound, technically validated, and properly controlled before it touches live capital.
• Act as the key point of contact when issues arise across brokers, exchanges, vendors, traders, and internal engineering teams.
• Help prioritize market expansion across Asia based on trading demand, broker readiness, infrastructure complexity, capital efficiency, and operational risk.

Who You Are

Must Have

• Experience from a top-tier brokerage firm, prime broker, exchange, market-data / trading-infrastructure provider, or buy-side execution / trading operations team.
• Hands-on experience building or operating China / Asia market-access infrastructure for institutional trading, including broker onboarding, trading connectivity, market-data setup, account / clearing / settlement workflows, and production support.
• Strong practical understanding of institutional access routes into China markets, including Stock Connect and/or QFII / RQFII, with the ability to identify operational, settlement, reporting, and trading-rule implications.
• Proven ability to source, evaluate, onboard, and manage external trading counterparties, including brokers, prime brokers, exchanges, market-data vendors, and infrastructure providers.
• Strong understanding of how brokers, exchanges, market-data vendors, clearing partners, traders, and engineering teams interact in a live trading environment.
• Familiarity with China or broader Asia market structure, including equities, Stock Connect, commodity futures, exchange rules, market-data setup, and trading controls.
• Ability to translate trader and strategist requirements into concrete technical, operational, and control requirements for engineering and operations teams.
• Familiarity with securities borrowing and lending workflows, including borrow availability, locates, short-selling eligibility, borrow cost, recall risk, and how borrow constraints affect systematic trading strategies.
• Strong project and program-management discipline, with the ability to manage timelines, dependencies, RAID logs, UAT, go-live readiness, and cross-functional sign-offs.
• Strong commercial and relationship-management capability; able to negotiate, escalate, follow up, and hold external counterparties accountable.
• Self-driven with strong ownership, comfortable building a new capability from scratch in a high-stakes trading environment.
• Fluency in English & Mandarin Chinese to communicate effectively with colleagues across different locations.

Strong Pluses

• Direct experience with A-shares, Stock Connect, QFII / RQFII, or China commodity futures.
• Direct experience with onshore broker / custodian workflows, cross-border account structures, clearing, settlement, or regulatory reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with Korea, Taiwan, or India market access, including KRX / KOSPI, KRX derivatives, TWSE / TAIFEX, NSE / BSE, or FPI setup.
• Experience with FIX / API connectivity, drop copy, OMS / EMS workflows, exchange-gateway conformance testing, or market-data feed integration.
• Experience negotiating or operating under ISDA, give-up, clearing, connectivity, or market-data agreements.
• Knowledge of securities borrow inventory management, SBL, refinancing, availability, locate workflows, and short-selling constraints.
• Hands-on experience with pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade control frameworks, exchange-level risk limits, kill switches, and production runbooks.
• Experience building runbooks, go-live readiness processes, RAID logs, or production escalation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience in a systematic trading, quant trading, electronic trading, or low-latency trading environment where infrastructure quality directly impacts PnL.
• A strong academic background.