Job Title:  Associate

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is an Asia-based financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Asset 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. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com. 

Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

Divisional Overview 

Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model execution business (Instinet) of the Nomura Group, this business provides brokerage services to clients in over 60 markets around the world. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

GES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK and India. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for global execution business.

Business Overview 

Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
• We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Role & Responsibilities:

This is an individual contributor position. You will join a distributed team building and maintaining Newport3, a Windows-based institutional trading platform used by traders to manage orders, market data, and automated trading strategies. You will be working closely with the remote core team while establishing local engineering presence and knowledge.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance features across the Newport3 application, spanning order management, routing, market data, and different modules
• Designing, building, and testing individual bundles that integrate cleanly into the wider application
• Implement business logic in domain-layer plugins (order lifecycle, fills, positions, triggers, alerts) with a focus on correctness and reliability
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests using JUnit, JMockit, and AssertJ Swing; maintain coverage standards as the codebase evolves
• Collaborate asynchronously with the remote team, picking up and resolving tickets independently while escalating blockers early
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews, contributing to architectural decisions as the team evolves toward more modern UI approaches
• Gradually become a regional point of contact — capable of onboarding future hires and explaining system behaviour without always needing the remote team
• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new UX solutions that meet business objectives.
• Agile –participate in weekly scrums and provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with various development and support teams across regions
• L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature.
• Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.

Mandatory Skill Set :

• Strong Core Java, Swing.
• Very strong Java Multi-threading – concurrency, synchronization and memory management
• Knowledge/experience of front-end technologies like React.js or Angular
• Understand Design patterns
• Strong skills in application performance management
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Quick learner 
• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Desired Skill Set :

• Financial domain — institutional order management, FIX, execution venues, allocation
• Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges
• Python