# Founding Software Engineer

Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement. About the Position Old Mission Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, is hiring its first Senior Software Engineer in Hong Kong to own the technology that keeps our APAC office trading. This could be anything from the office network and printers to our low-latency trading systems. This is a generalist role by design. You will be the founding engineer on the ground, working directly with Traders and Quants, and you will build and run the infrastructure and automated trading systems behind their strategies. You will also set the engineering standards for the Hong Kong office as it grows. Required Skills BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technically related field 5+ years as a professional software engineer building and running production systems, with strong Python and C++ skills

- **Id**: 4077731
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/old-mission-founding-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hong Kong
- **Countries**: HK
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:27:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:01:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2187
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure, Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

## Company

- **Id**: 678384
- **Name**: Old Mission
- **Domain**: oldmissioncapital.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/oldmissioncapital>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0.269
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 110
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T16:01:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 110
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T17:13:43Z

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