Lead Software Engineer (13081)

Business Overview

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.

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
• Linux Exposure
• Shell Scripting

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.