Associate, Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Corporate Title: Associate
Department: Group Technology
Location:  Hong Kong

Company 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. For further information about Nomura, visit

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 and scale our global Prime Business.

Role Overview:

There is an opening in the Global Markets IT Equity Execution Services team with a focus on front-office trading systems development. The successful candidate will help develop the electronic trading platforms, and work on improving those platforms with the local business in mind.  

Role Description:

• Ideally, the candidate will have extensive experience with back-end system development and design concepts.  The candidate will have good communication skills and should be capable of working as part of a larger global team.
• A strong Java developer contributing to a complex trading platform for front-office electronic trading business.
• Able to mentor junior developers and delegate tasks as required
• Design, develop and deliver high quality, mission critical changes in a fast paced environment.
• Partner with fellow developers, quality engineers & product owners constituting the distributed team, with strong focus on delivering value to business.
• Support in resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases.
• Gain understanding and contribute to various applications and systems being developed by the group.
• Learn new technologies & develop new tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.
• A strong & consistent focus on automation of the development and delivery pipelines.
• Agile mind set & a strong bias for action.

Skills, experience, qualifications, and knowledge required:

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years in a similar development role required.
• Degree holder in Information Technology or equivalent; technical background is preferred.
• Proven experience as a Java developer or similar role
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Extensive experience on Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot and related frameworks
• Good foundation in data structures and algorithms.
• Applied understanding of OOP & SOLID principles.
• Strong adherence to TDD & exposure to modern unit test frameworks, mocking methodologies and automation testing.
• Language proficiency: Fluency in English

Desirable:

• Experience in Equity space, covering Delta1 and Equity Derivatives
• Experience with low latency high capacity trading platforms
• Understanding of Algorithmic Trading and Front Office execution systems
• Experience with Inventory Management and integration with Trading Systems
• Able to work in a distributed team across different regions a time zones

Nomura Leadership Behaviours 

Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future. 

Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations. 

Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity. 

Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.  

Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

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