Nomura

Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Nomura
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14 days ago
Mumbai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture, technical design, and execution of projects across Java and C++ codebases.
  • Drive delivery from requirements gathering through production deployment.
  • Establish technical standards, best practices, code-quality benchmarks, and architectural guidance.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, workshops, and career development.
  • Lead application modernization, framework migration, technology upgrades, and architectural improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure applications meet availability, performance, data-integrity, and service-level requirements.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and optimize application performance and resource utilization.
  • Maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.
  • Represent FX Options Technology in global modernization, SDLC, evergreen, and infrastructure forums.
  • Collaborate with Risk, Settlement, Regulatory, Finance, Collateral, and other cross-functional teams on integrations.
  • Develop expertise in FX derivatives pricing, risk calculations, trade lifecycles, and related workflows.

Requirements

  • 14+ years of experience.
  • B Tech, BE, or MCA qualification.
  • Strong Java experience, including Spring Framework, REST APIs, multithreading, concurrency, JVM tuning, and memory management.
  • Modern C++ development experience, including STL, Boost, memory management, and performance-critical systems.
  • Experience with software architecture, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and message-oriented middleware.
  • Experience with SQL, relational databases, real-time data processing, and streaming.
  • Experience with low-latency systems, high-frequency trading platforms, performance profiling, optimization, and GDB.
  • Understanding of financial-services operations, transaction processing, settlement, reconciliation, and financial data requirements.
  • Knowledge of FX derivatives and options pricing, Greeks, risk metrics, trade capture, real-time risk, EOD processing, regulatory reporting, and trade lifecycle workflows.
  • Experience integrating with downstream Risk, Settlement, Confirmation, Regulatory, Finance, and Collateral systems.
  • Understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, high availability, security, encryption, access control, monitoring, logging, observability, containers, and cloud environments.
  • Strong technical leadership, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and modernization experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellbeing services and benefits supporting employees and their families.
  • Benefits are subject to change and governed by company policies.
  • Equal-opportunity employment with an inclusive workplace commitment.

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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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