Lead Software Engineer

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.

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.

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 65 markets around the world. 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. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the markets 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, Japan and India, owns and delivers multiple product stacks.

GES India works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for our clients and for Nomura global execution business.

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:

Global Trading Research (GTR) team is responsible for a wide variety of critical components, including a real-time analytics signal engine and a proprietary tick database for on-demand market data analysis. These technologies underpin the Experts trading platform which provides a suite of equity execution algorithms to Instinet’s institutional client base. 

As part of our efforts to continue to deliver market-leading products, we are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join the GTR development team and become a key player in technical innovation and modernization of our application stack. Working as part of our global team, the successful candidate will be involved in the day-to-day development and support of this platform. The candidate would join a successful agile IT team, working closely with business in a highly collaborative environment. 

In addition to building new features, we continue to make significant investments in our software development methodology, tooling and next generation platforms. The successful candidate will work closely with other regional development teams across London, New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai to further buildout these key areas and foster innovation.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Deliver new features, enhancements and bug fixes to our GTR platform.
• Participate in the full project life cycle including technical analysis, design, data analysis and mapping, development and testing
• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.
• Liaise with the business and development teams with regards to priorities and progress of various tasks and projects.
• Ensure adherence to functional architecture strategy and compliance to company development standards.
• Refactoring and continuous improvement of the platform and stack.
• Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC – including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions
• L2 & 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.
• Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews
• Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.

Mandatory Skill Set :

• Investment Banking domain – good understanding of capital markets
• Experience working with financial markets and understanding of local market characteristics
• Any exposure to electronic trading systems for equities, FX or similar.
• Excellent technical skills in

• Strong Core Java
• High performance messaging
• Multi-threading, memory management
• Networking (TCP/UDP)
• Performance optimization
• CI/CD automation

Position Specifications: