Senior Software Engineer - Market Access

On

IN SHORT: We are establishing a Global Technology Center in China to serve as a strategic R&D and innovation center for next-generation retail and commercial platforms. As Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for building, leading, and scaling this hub, owning the end-to-end engineering strategy, execution, and talent agenda. This role combines deep technical leadership, organizational building, and global stakeholder management. You will operate at the intersection of China’s highly advanced retail ecosystem and our global technology platform, delivering software products that power markets across the globe. You will report into global technology leadership and act as a key member of the Global Engineering Leadership Team. Your entrepreneurial and result-driven mindset, combined with strong hands-on technical oversight and execution skills, will make you a key member of the core team on which On’s future is built. YOUR MISSION: Your mission is to build a world-class engineering organization in Shanghai, China that delivers globally scalable, locally excellent retail technology platforms. You will: * Establish China as a center of excellence for retail innovation * Lead the development of proprietary, self-owned global platforms * Ensure China-based teams operate as first-class global product teams * Balance China-specific depth with global platform standardization * Build an engineering culture rooted in technical excellence, ownership, and global impact LEAD WITH VISION — AND WITH CODE * Lead and scale multiple engineering teams responsible for building globally critical retail and commercial platforms from China. * Shape the technical direction, platform roadmap, and execution focus in close partnership with Product, Architecture, Security, and Global Tech Leadership. * Stay deeply hands-on: participate in architectural design, challenge system boundaries, review complex trade-offs, and guide critical technical decisions with clarity and conviction. * Ensure all platforms align with the global architecture north star, long-term platform strategy, and regulatory requirements across regions. * Act as a visible technical leader who sets the bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and quality. BUILD GLOBAL PLATFORMS WITH CHINA-FIRST INNOVATION * Own the delivery, quality, and technical excellence of globally deployed platforms built and operated from the China Tech Hub. * Lead the development of self-owned, modular, and scalable architectures that combine: * Deep local innovation leveraging China’s advanced retail and technology ecosystem. * A unified global core enabling rapid localization across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. * Drive predictable execution by breaking down complex initiatives, managing uncertainty, and unblocking teams to deliver consistently at scale. * Maintain high operational resilience by enforcing SLOs, incident response standards, security practices, and platform reliability expectations. * Continuously raise the bar for how teams design, test, deploy, observe, and evolve production systems. SHAPE CULTURE AND GROW WORLD-CLASS TALENT * Build and nurture a high-performing engineering culture rooted in technical rigor, ownership, openness, and continuous learning. * Champion global engineering values and principles through visible role modeling and decision-making. * Coach and mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers, developing strong technical leadership and succession pipelines. * Own hiring strategy and decisions for the China hub, consistently raising the talent bar in a highly competitive market. * Establish clear career paths, expectations, and feedback loops that enable engineers to grow and thrive. COLLABORATE AND COMMUNICATE WITH INFLUENCE * Tell clear, compelling technical stories—translating complex systems and trade-offs into clarity for senior stakeholders. * Drive alignment across global engineering, product, and business teams, ensuring shared understanding and coordinated execution. * Build trusted partnerships across regions, functions, and cultures, operating effectively in a highly distributed global environment. * Represent the China Tech Hub in global engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and cross-functional initiatives. CONNECT ENGINEERING WORK TO BUSINESS IMPACT * Understand the end-to-end commercial and retail journey, and connect engineering investments directly to scalability, speed, cost efficiency, and business outcomes. * Operate with a platform-first mindset, ensuring solutions simplify the ecosystem, reduce duplication, and unlock future velocity. * Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term technical health, ensuring sustainable growth of global platforms. YOUR STORY: * Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (ICs and Engineering Managers) within complex, fast-moving, product-driven organizations operating at global scale. * A strong technical foundation with hands-on experience designing and evolving large-scale e-commerce platforms, including customer-facing, transactional, and backend commerce systems. * Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering Point of Sale (POS) platforms and solutions, including system design for in-store operations, payments, and omnichannel integration. * Deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and integration patterns, with systems operating across regions and regulatory environments. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills—you translate technical complexity into clarity, influence decision-making, and create alignment across engineering, product, and business leadership. * A consistent track record of delivering high-impact platforms and products with predictability, quality, and measurable outcomes. * Experience shaping system architecture, influencing engineering principles and technical standards, and driving strong governance without slowing teams down. * A genuine passion for coaching, mentoring, and growing engineering leaders, and for building a healthy, high-performing engineering culture. * Comfort navigating ambiguity, making high-judgment calls, and aligning distributed, cross-regional teams around a shared mission and technical vision. * A builder’s mindset—resourceful, pragmatic, and execution-oriented, with a bias toward learning fast and iterating intelligently. * An entrepreneurial spirit—you think in terms of platform leverage, long-term value, and ownership, and you act like a true steward of the technology and the organization. * Collaborative, grounded, and energized by building platforms and teams that deliver real global business impact. * Fluent in English and Mandarin and able to operate confidently in cross-cultural environments. WHAT WE OFFER: We offer a dynamic, challenging and sportive environment that has been ranked as the ‘fastest growing sports company’ of its time. With offices across the globe, we are an international team who is hungry to innovate and build something incredible. We foster an active environment where each individual thrives for excellence and can achieve their full potential. This is where your work matters, you’re hands-on and your team members are amongst the very best in their respective disciplines and fields.    If you are driven to bring On to the next level, curious about the opportunity and want to be part of our growing team send us your application, and join the ONiverse!

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. Your future role within QRT The successful candidate will join the global infrastructure team at QRT. You will be responsible for architecting, engineering and subsequent delivery oversight across all aspects of the QRT network estate but with particular focus on our colocation infrastructure. The trading infrastructure is a combination of wide area connectivity and ultra-low latency trading infrastructures.  The team will deliver network solutions which enable full lifecycle management (architect, design, build, operate, retire) for our network components across core network switching, firewalls, load balancers, instrumentation/telemetry, network CMDB, and automation. It is crucial that any candidates must be able to demonstrate delivery of complex networks, at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation-driven mindset.  You will have deep knowledge of high-performance networking, including detailed knowledge of the product capabilities and roadmaps from the likes of Cisco, Arista and Fortinet. You will have direct experience of delivering and managing network solutions supporting corporate infrastructure and exchange specific ultra-low latency infrastructure with associated automation, telemetry and instrumentation frameworks.  Your present skillset * As a senior network engineer, you will partner closely with the project management teams and work in a highly collaborative manner within the network team and the wider organisation  * You will be member of an existing engineering team where you have direct responsibility and accountability for a complex and high-performance network infrastructures  * You will be able to demonstrate expert knowledge of delivering complex network architectures delivered via software driven and agile methodology  * You will have deep knowledge of delivering networks supporting high-performance and low latency computing architectures  * You will have deep knowledge of the network vendor ecosystem and be able to demonstrate building engineering relationships at senior layers with vendor product and engineering teams  * You will stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the network infrastructure remains cutting-edge  * You will have knowledge of wide area network engineering focused on traffic prioritisation and steering.  It would be good to have experience of Segment Routing.    QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Ekimetrics

Ekimetrics is a global leader in Marketing & Commercial effectiveness and AI-powered solutions. Since 2006, we’ve been helping businesses optimize marketing and operations by combining AI with business and tech expertise across 4 domains: Marketing & commercial effectiveness, Customer analytics, Operational excellence, ESG & sustainability. With a full in-house team and offices in Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, we deliver tailor-made solutions that turn data into real positive impact, leveraging our unique combination of technology and services. We excel at delivering AI impact at scale. Our mission is to harness this power to tackle the world’s most urgent issues. We commit to responsibility and frugality in AI, systematic AI impact at scale, and loyalty to our values and DNA. To accelerate our business growth in the APAC region, we decided to open a new office in Shanghai (operational since January 2024).   About the role   As a senior Business Scientist, you will be leading challenging projects with international blue-chip clients across high-profile presentations to senior clients. You will be working in teams of 3 to 6 Business Scientists, on 2 to 3 projects simultaneously.   The primary focus of the senior consultant’s work will be to drive high client value and broaden relationships at the most senior levels with current and prospective clients and translate this into new business opportunities for Ekimetrics.   The senior Business Scientist will be leading projects from the first discovery meetings all the way to final recommendations, responsible for gathering and analyzing data, building statistical models, translating quantitative insights into strategic recommendations, and delivering the final results as a persuasive story.   The successful candidate will also be expected to develop the more junior members of the team to be able to do high impact work across core areas of the clients’ businesses.   Finally, the successful candidate will be expected to drive development initiatives and new thought-leadership, transfer knowledge to junior team members, and continue to build Ekimetrics reputation and brand in Asia.   1. Team Management: ·          Actively work with the team to identify actions to improve engagements ·          Retain top performers and support the development of future Eki leaders ·          Provide visible sponsorship to recruiting, retaining & engaging diverse talent in your organization   2. Business Operator: ·          Design and scope new projects, using the right analyses to answer client questions ·          Deliver with excellence – ensure high client satisfaction and make sure that issues are raised and resolved in a timely manner with no surprises ·          Ensure client's business case is achievable and Ekimetrics has appropriate ability to influence promised outcomes ·          Present actionable and easy-to-understand findings to drive high levels of adoption within client organizations ·          Drive client retention and new business opportunities   3. Ekimetrics Life: ·          Help lead our fast growth by contributing to local and global initiatives such as Thought-Leadership, Knowledge Management, Recruitment, Culture, Gender Balance and Diversity teams, Pioneering Machine Learning/AI techniques for the office, etc.   About You   The successful candidate will have a balance of marketing and business strategy understanding, client-facing business service experience, and significant data and analytics expertise. The work will be rooted in the creation of innovative analytic engagements for clients.   Ideally, you will have:   ·          Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, operations research or business (MBA) from a leading academic institution is preferred ·          4+ years of experience in Data Analysis / Modelling / Advanced Analytics in a business setting, preferably in a client-facing consulting-oriented role ·          Passion for data, extensive knowledge in statistics or applied mathematics, experience with techniques such as modelling / optimization, and experience in using advanced analytical methodologies to answer business questions ·          Experience with statistical software such as R, Python, etc.   Consulting & Transversal skills           ·          Strong knowledge of marketing and media strategy, and the key questions for the modern CMO ·          Excellent communication skills – especially translating complex technical findings into plain language insights and stories for stakeholders ·          Demonstrated ability to develop new and lasting client relationships at senior levels across multiple industries ·          Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and within Ekimetrics ·          Management experience and demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team. ·          Project management and delivery expertise ·          Passion for joining a small team and desire to help the business grow quickly ·          High proficiency in Putonghua and English ·          Proficiency in APAC languages is a plus (Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, etc)   What we offer  ·          Being part of an entrepreneurial and growing team. ·          Working with top-tier clients at senior executive level. ·          Evolving in deep data analysis expertise while having a real business impact. ·          Strong Culture and work environment. ·          Challenging projects. ·          Career growth and international mobility. ·          Attractive compensation package.   In 2023, Ekimetrics has obtained the mission-driven company status, which demonstrates our strong commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Our mission statement: Accelerate organisations transformation towards sustainability, through the application of data science and artificial intelligence.   We are also Great Place to Work certified© in France, the UK, and the US, and received the ‘Best companies to Work for in Asia 2023©’ award in Hong Kong.   As an employer, Ekimetrics offers equal employment opportunities to all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability, or age. Ekimetrics strives to develop an inclusive work environment that reflects diversity within its teams.