Senior 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 Unit 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. 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 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.

 

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:

NXTConnect and Core Gateways are our flagship solutions that provides HFT/Hedge Fund Clients with low latency Direct Market Access (DMA) and connectivity to Algo Solutions.

This is an individual contributor position within Connectivity IT team. The selected person would be part of Nomura Equity Execution Services – Connectivity IT team , reporting to the IT Lead in Mumbai and would working closely with global Connectivity IT team. 

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Java Technologist to join our development team building a high-performance, low-latency trading platform.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing mission-critical trading infrastructure that processes thousands of orders per second with microsecond-level latency requirements.

You should be passionate about writing highly efficient, concurrent, and performance-critical code and have strong knowledge of Java internals, network programming, and low-latency system design.

 

Role & Responsibilities:

• Develop large, complex Latency Sensitive Trading Product Suite. Optimize performance for low latency, high-throughput processing
• Build execution gateways and interfaces to multiple exchanges and dark pools. Implement fault-tolerant systems and robust recovery mechanisms. Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and tuning JVM/GC/networking performance
• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.
• Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.
• Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.
• Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC – including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different 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.
• 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.
• Proven experience building low-latency trading systems or real-time data pipelines. Strong understanding of FIX protocols and Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, Aeron, Chronicle Queue (nice to have)

 

Mandatory Skill Set :

• Excellent technical skills in
• Strong Core Java
• High performance messaging
• Multi-threading, memory management
• Networking (TCP/UDP)
• Performance optimization
• Gitlab CI – Continuous Integration
• Experience of Trading System Development and/or Complex Event Processing
  
• Deep understanding of multithreading, NIO, concurrency, lock-free data structures, and GC tuning
  
• Understanding of memory management, multi-threading - concurrency and synchronization.
  
• Experience with memory-mapped files, off-heap storage, or zero-copy I/O
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills

 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 

• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

 

 

Desired Skill Set :

• Investment Banking domain – good understanding of capital markets
• Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges
• Any exposure to exchange connectivity or FIX is highly desirable.
• Linux Exposure
• Shell Scripting