14 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement software components for algorithmic trading and smart order routing platforms supporting cash equities across Asian markets.
- Develop high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and performance-optimized software using C++ and Java on Linux.
- Build and troubleshoot low-latency, high-volume, multithreaded systems, including hardware and software issues.
- Work with financial-market algorithms, market data feeds, APIs, order routing protocols, and complete front-to-back trading flows.
- Perform performance profiling, contribute to connectivity solutions using FIX, and improve platform stability, controls, and technical debt.
- Provide second-line production support, knowledge transfer, and support for smooth releases.
- Follow Barclays development, secure coding, testing, regulatory, risk, and internal policy standards.
- Guide technical direction, coach less experienced specialists, and advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of algorithmic trading experience gained at top-tier investment banks.
- Experience with financial markets and applications, including algorithms, market data feeds, APIs, order routing protocols, and complete front-to-back trading flows.
- Experience working in high-volume environments with demanding low-latency requirements.
- Competence in C++ and Java software development on Linux, including performance profiling tools and techniques.
- Experience with connectivity solutions and the FIX protocol.
- Experience developing multithreaded systems and knowledge of thread synchronization techniques.
- Strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, time-critical team environment with strong ownership and a solution-focused attitude.
About Barclays
Barclays is a UK‑based universal bank that provides retail and commercial banking, credit cards (Barclaycard), wealth management, and investment banking to consumers, businesses, and institutions. Publicly listed in London and New York, it generates revenue from net interest income, fees, and markets activities, and operates across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. Founded in 1690 and headquartered in London, it serves customers through digital channels and a branch network.