Nomura

Principal Software Engineer

Nomura
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2 months ago
Mumbai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain large, complex latency-sensitive trading products.
  • Optimize systems for ultra-low-latency and high-throughput processing.
  • Build execution gateways and interfaces to exchanges and dark pools.
  • Implement fault-tolerant systems and recovery mechanisms.
  • Profile, benchmark, and tune JVM, garbage collection, and networking performance.
  • Design and deliver high-quality software across development, testing, documentation, maintenance, and support.
  • Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, code reviews, requirements, and project prioritization.
  • Provide L3 production support, application testing, issue resolution, and maintenance releases.
  • Work with global development, QA, support, product, stakeholder, and client teams.
  • Contribute to software delivery best practices and serve as a technical and functional contact point.

Requirements

  • 15–18 years of professional experience.
  • B.E., B.Tech, MCA, or M.Tech qualification.
  • Good understanding of investment banking, capital markets, and equity trading markets, including compliance considerations.
  • Experience with exchange connectivity, FIX protocols, trading systems, or complex event processing.
  • Strong Core Java, high-performance messaging, multithreading, memory management, networking, and performance optimization skills.
  • Deep knowledge of Java NIO, concurrency, lock-free data structures, and garbage-collection tuning.
  • Experience with memory-mapped files, off-heap storage, or zero-copy I/O.
  • Proven experience building low-latency trading systems or real-time data pipelines.
  • Strong analytical, communication, leadership, initiative, and attention-to-detail skills.
  • Knowledge of Kafka, Aeron, or Chronicle Queue is a plus.
  • Exposure to C, C++, FPGA, or Verilog is a plus.
  • Python experience is desired.
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About Nomura

10,000+ employees

Nomura is a Tokyo‑headquartered, publicly traded financial services group providing wealth and investment management, wholesale (global markets and investment banking), and banking to individuals, institutions, corporates, and governments. Founded in 1925, it operates in about 30 countries and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the NYSE. Subsidiaries such as Instinet offer agency brokerage and electronic trading, serving clients in over 60 markets.

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