Job Title: Fixed Term Contract, Principal Software Engineer (Hog Kong)
Job Description
Job Title: Fixed Term Contract, Principal Software Engineer
Corporate Title: No Corporate Title
Division Group Technology
Location: Hong Kong
Nomura Overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.
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Department Overview
Prime Brokerage is a suite of services provided by investment banks to hedge funds and other institutional investors. These services include market access, trade execution, custody, securities lending, financing, margin trading and risk management. This allows our clients to focus on investment goals and strategy.
Prime Technology is part of Global Markets IT. We are a front-office trader facing technology team combining the functions of Prime Brokerage and Equity Financing. We are responsible for building platforms to grow, scale and support our Prime Traders and clients.
Functional Overview
As part of the Prime business growth plan to handle high volume multi-strategy and quantitative clients trading synthetics, we are looking to build out a new straight through swap booking workflow system. This system sits between Order Management and a SASS Swap Booking product called Nuvo Prime. It will handle functionality such as: equity trade compression, trade validation, FX rate management, short/financing rate enrichment, give in workflow from external brokers and ultimately the booking of swaps and allocations in the Nuvo system.
We are looking for contractors with experience with trading systems/Prime Brokerage to join us in Hong Kong. Candidates should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, good communication abilities and a proactive learning mindset.
Role description
• Own development of Java-based applications, ensuring focus on correctness, resilience and quality.
• Work across different functional and technical solutions including trader tool enhancements, regulatory initiatives, inventory optimization, and global swap system migrations.
• Collaborate closely with traders and operations as part of a team to understand their needs and create technical solutions.
• Be part of a global team with members in Tokyo, Mumbai, London, and New York. Contributing to collective goals and supporting your colleagues.
• Collaborate on projects across other technology, business, client and vendor teams.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from initial discussions through to design, development, testing, deployment.
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices and high standards are followed.
• Document discussions / solutions / processes and track development and issues using Confluence and Jira. Share ideas/observations/improvements with the global team.
• Primary Support is covered by a separate Production Services team, however at times you may need to assist Production Services and traders to resolve issues.
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:
• 5+ years’ experience as a Java Developer with Computer Science or similar degree
• Strong core Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3 experience
• Microservice experience
• Able to work with other teams/external vendors to connect to external APIs (Traiana API, Nuvo APIs, Nuvo Data Feeds)
• Ensure good quality code and test coverage
• Document decisions and system design
• Collaborate with traders and operations to understand their needs/clarify details
• Assist Production Services and traders/operations in resolving issues when needed
• Unix skills
Preferred skills:
• Test Driven Development
• Experience with messaging systems (Pulsar/Kafka/Websockets/JMS), streaming (Flink/RisingWave)
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes
• Experience with Grafana/Prometheus for monitoring
• Familiarity with workflow/state machines/rules services
• Understanding of serialization protocols (Protobuf)
• Databases/SQL/NoSql DBs
Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.
DISCLAIMER: This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer