Head of Risk - Predictive Trading (High-Growth FinTech) - JN-022026-6957494 | Michael Page

Young and Energetic Environment Head of Risk Position About Our Client Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed prediction-market trading platform building its Asia-Pacific hub in Hong Kong. The company integrates elements of an exchange, broker, and clearing engine into a single real-time trading system, supported by strong institutional investors across Web3, technology, and digital-asset ecosystems. Job Description Build the real-time risk-decision engine, enforcing allow/restrict/block l

Michael Page - Hong Kong - Full time

Salary: Competitive

  • Young and Energetic Environment
  • Head of Risk Position
About Our Client

Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed prediction-market trading platform building its Asia-Pacific hub in Hong Kong. The company integrates elements of an exchange, broker, and clearing engine into a single real-time trading system, supported by strong institutional investors across Web3, technology, and digital-asset ecosystems.

Job Description
  • Build the real-time risk-decision engine, enforcing allow/restrict/block logic at millisecond speed
  • Design reserve & solvency monitoring, payout-risk thresholds, and auto-alert systems
  • Build a full Trading Credit Engine with issuance logic, dynamic limits & lifecycle controls
  • Detect multi-accounting, collusion, farming, and systematic arbitrage
  • Define user-tiering, restriction logic, and ensure enforcement at the order layer
  • Establish feedback loops with market makers to flag adversarial patterns and refine quoting
  • Make final judgments when there are risk-policy disputes across product, trading, and exchange teams
  • As the platform grows, transition into team leadership, hiring analysts and risk engineers
The Successful Applicant
  • 10+ years experience in exchange risk, fintech risk, anti-fraud, or quant/market-risk roles
  • Background in trading systems, derivatives, payments, or online gaming strongly valued
  • Strong understanding of core trading-system mechanics:orderbooks, clearing & settlement flows, account-ledger structures. You don't need to have written a matching engine, but must be able to engage deeply with engineers who have
  • Hands-on SQL + Python for behavior analysis and prototype detection
  • Experience in adversarial environments where users actively probe and exploit rule gaps
  • Familiarity with real-time systems (Kafka/Flink or similar) is a plus
  • Strong ability to influence cross-functional teams with analysis, logic, and clarity
What's on Offer
  • Own and build the entire risk architecture from day one
  • Work on a complex trading platform combining exchange, brokerage, and clearing mechanics
  • Partner directly with founders, product, and market-making teams
  • Backed by reputable investors; launching major products this year
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