Trader

About EG

Engineers Gate (EG) is a leading investment manager founded in 2014 as a quantitative, computer-driven trading firm. Today, EG operates as a diversified, multi-strategy investment platform that combines systematic research with selective discretionary approaches. 
 
EG's multi-manager platform allows independent investment teams to pursue distinct strategies while benefiting from shared infrastructure, risk management, and operational support. The firm’s collaborative groups of researchers, engineers, and investment professionals deploy sophisticated statistical models, proprietary technology, and a centralized data platform to isolate and solve challenging problem sets in the global financial markets. 

About The Role 

As part of the global trading and operations team, the Trader will play a pivotal role in leading securities financing activities across Asia, including securities borrowing/lending and stock loan recalls, as well as trade execution for listed and OTC products with a particular emphasis on China. This role requires a technically strong, process-driven professional with solid financing expertise who is comfortable in fast-moving markets. Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across execution, portfolio management, and financing counterparties are vital. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support execution across China and APAC equity, equity index swaps, futures, FX, and related instruments with focus on efficient, repeatable, low-friction implementation. Apply strong knowledge around market microstructure, liquidity, and operational risk in both electronic and high-touch workflows.
• Partner closely with PMs trading Asian products and trading Asian hours, delivering timely insight on borrow availability, recalls and recall risk, financing levels, index hedge construction, and execution trade-offs and considerations that directly inform portfolio management teams.
• Build out and manage securities borrowing and lending activities for China A-shares and broader Asian markets, including sourcing, maintaining, and monitoring borrows; proactively managing recalls; coordinating with PMs, traders, managers, operations team, and counterparties to preserve continuity and minimize execution and portfolio disruption; and creating reporting for management and risk oversight.
• Actively monitor stock loan, equity financing, and index hedging markets to identify price dislocations, tightening risk, and optimization opportunities, applying a disciplined, process-driven, and model-aware manner approach to financing and hedge outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with prime brokers and lending counterparties, using market color, performance feedback, and analysis on inventory to improve availability, pricing and operational efficiency across securities lending and related financing products.
• Collaborate with global trading teams, portfolio finance and operations members to support day-to-day execution, financing workflows, and operational oversight across China and APAC ensuring alignment across regions and time zones.
• Drive continuous improvement of trading, as well as financing infrastructure and reporting, contributing ideas and improvements to tooling, process, and workflows, with an emphasis on automation, scalability, and reduced execution and financing friction.
• Support regional initiatives and ad hoc projects, including the launch of new PMs, strategies, products, market/region expansions, providing hands-only implementation, onboarding, and expertise where needed.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• 7–10 years of relevant experience within sell-side or buy-side investment management. Ideally in portfolio finance, securities lending, or similar equity execution related roles.
• Bachelor’s degree or directly transferrable and applicable professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in Asian equity financing, equity index financing, recalls, and stock loan markets required. Familiarity in China A-shares strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of Prime Brokerage, equity finance products, and regional market structure required. Awareness of regulatory considerations is a plus.
• Experience supporting systematic or quantitative equity strategies is preferred.
• Process-driven mindset with a strong appreciation for operational robustness, controls, and repeatability.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail required. Experience with SQL, data analysis tools, or reporting workflows is desirable but not strictly required.
• Proficiency in Excel and Bloomberg, as well as exposure to Python or trading / execution frameworks is a plus.
• Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, high-pressure environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and urgency.
• Clear, confident communicator with the ability to build effective working relationships across portfolio management, trading, operations, and counterparties.
• Compliance- and control-conscious, with the ability to operate within established policies and frameworks.