Engineering rigor over trading reflex.
Every recurring decision becomes a tool. Every tool is documented, measured, and owned by a named engineer. If a process can't survive a change of operator, we don't run it.
Commerce is a system. We're hiring the people who run it.
Sinochilo Commercial Limited is a Hong Kong commercial operations firm. We build the engineered layer beneath cross-border trade — sourcing, compliance, fulfillment, and settlement, treated as one continuous operating system rather than four disconnected functions.
- 11 Years operating
- 28 Markets routed
- 94% On-time settlement
- 06 Open engineering roles
// 01.0 Discipline
Four convictions we hire on, write code on, and sign contracts on.
Trade companies sell margin. Software companies sell systems. We sit in the gap — staffed by people who can read a bill of lading and a stack trace in the same afternoon. These are the convictions that decide who joins, what we ship, and which deals we walk away from.
Trade operators, not middlemen.
We hold inventory, take counterparty risk, and pay suppliers on our own paper. Skin in the game changes how every other decision is made.
Compliance is the product.
HKSAR, mainland China, ASEAN, EU. Each lane has its own paperwork; we treat it as schema, not paperwork. Audit trails ship before invoices do.
Long horizons, short loops.
We sign multi-year operating partnerships, then iterate weekly. The shape of a twelve-year relationship is decided by what shipped on Tuesday.
No black boxes for our partners.
Counterparties get a read-only view of every system that touches their cargo, their cash, or their compliance position. Trust scales when explanation does.
// 01.1 The Stack
The capabilities we run as software, the capabilities we run as people.
We treat trade as six interlocking modules. Each has clear inputs, clear outputs, and an internal team of two to nine engineers and operators who own its uptime. No module is outsourced; none is offshored beyond Greater China.
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Sourcing intelligence
Vetted supplier graphs across Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, and ASEAN tiers. Counterparty risk scores updated weekly, not annually. Every onboarding ships with a kill-switch playbook.
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Trade compliance & documentation
Cross-jurisdictional document orchestration: HS classification, certificates of origin, sanctions screening, and customs filings, generated from a single source of truth and reviewed by licensed brokers.
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Logistics & fulfillment
Multi-modal routing across HKIA, Yantian, Shekou, and Kwai Tsing; bonded warehousing in Kwun Tong; last-mile partners in twenty-eight markets, with live carbon and lead-time accounting.
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Settlement & treasury
Multi-currency treasury operations, hedging, and milestone-linked payouts. Counterparties settle in HKD, USD, CNH, or EUR with audit-grade reconciliation attached to every transfer.
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Counterparty platform
Partner-facing console with role-scoped access to shipments, documents, ledger, and disputes. Build once, share with every supplier, buyer, broker, and auditor in your lane.
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Internal tooling
The operating system that holds the other five together: ticketing, observability, runbooks, and a shared data plane. Built in-house because no vendor models trade the way we need it modeled.
// 02.0 Sectors
Where Sinochilo runs the longest, the loudest, and the most carefully.
We do not generalize across every category. Each sector below has been a multi-year partnership with at least three principals and a working group of engineers and operators. Lanes outside this list — we politely refer.
Industrial components
Bearings, fasteners, electrical assemblies. Tolerance-led sourcing tied to ERP schedules from European OEMs. Mixed FCA / DDP terms.
Consumer electronics accessories
Higher-volume, lower-margin lanes; sharp focus on lead time, returns logistics, and marketplace compliance across three continents.
Specialty chemicals (non-hazardous)
Cosmetic, food-adjacent, and laboratory-grade chemistries. Stability monitoring, cold-chain validation, and regulator-ready dossiers per shipment.
Apparel & soft goods
Mid-tier brands launching capsules out of Greater Bay Area workshops. Pattern management, fabric traceability, and on-platform compliance for EU CSRD.
Light industrial machinery
Workshop tools, packaging lines, and small-format CNC. Documentation packs in three languages and onsite commissioning support across ASEAN.
B2B consumables
High-velocity, recurring-order categories — packaging, sanitation, office supplies — automated end-to-end with replenishment SLAs and standing PO grids.
// 02.1 Numbers
The metrics we publish to our partners. The metrics we publish to the team.
Updated every quarter and reviewed in-room with every engineer who joins. If a number falls outside its target band for two quarters running, it owns the next hiring slot.
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2014Year incorporated Continuously operating from Kwun Tong since incorporation under HKSAR Cap. 622.
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142Active counterparties Suppliers, buyers, brokers, and freight partners with read access to our partner console.
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28Markets routed From HK to NA, EU, ASEAN, ANZ, MENA. Each lane has a named owner and a runbook.
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94%On-time settlement Measured at counterparty pay-out, not invoice issuance. Target band: ≥ 92%.
// 03.0 Careers
Hire above the bar, then trust them. Six roles open right now.
We hire engineers who are curious about trade, and trade operators who are curious about software. Compensation is HK-market top-quartile, with profit participation after the first calendar year. Send your work to [email protected].
Why this team
Most trading companies grow by adding people. We grow by adding leverage — tools, runbooks, and small autonomous teams. The result is a workplace where an individual contributor's decision can compound for a decade.
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Senior Platform Engineer — Counterparty Console
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Trade Compliance Engineer — APAC lanes
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Backend Engineer — Settlement & Treasury
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Head of Sourcing — Industrial Components
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Data Engineer — Counterparty Risk Graph
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Operations Lead — Kwun Tong Bonded Warehouse
// 03.1 Where we work
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Five minutes from the harbour-front, twenty from the airport.
Our office and bonded operations sit in East Sun Industrial Centre on Shing Yip Street. If you're cycling along the Kwun Tong Promenade and you spot the greenish-grey signage on Block A — that's us.
Talk to a human, not a form.
Whether you're shipping a candidate CV, a partnership proposal, or a freight question that no other operator wanted to touch — write to the address below and a real person from the team will reply within one business day.
- Address
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Workshop 60, 3/F, Block A,
East Sun Industrial Centre,
No. 16 Shing Yip Street,
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. - [email protected]
- Phone
- +852 5710 1246