We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.
Responsibilities :
- Build and run core services for Rates trade booking and trade storage, with a design that can extend across broader FICC products. Own end-to-end delivery for your services : technical design, hands-on development (60-70%), CI/CD, production readiness, and operational support (you build it, you run it).
- Engineer for high availability, strong data consistency, and high throughput, including resilience patterns, capacity planning, and performance tuning. Design and implement service interfaces using gRPC/Protobuf and streaming patterns (e.g., HTTP SSE) to integrate with upstream/downstream platforms.
- Ensure robust auditability and controls : versioning of trade changes, traceability, access controls, data retention, and secure-by-design engineering.
- Drive a step-change in engineering culture : raise standards through design/code reviews, automation, observability, and incident learning, mentoring engineers through practical examples.
- Partner with Product Owners/BAs and stakeholders to shape requirements into clear user stories and deliver iteratively with predictable outcomes.
- Build and maintain lightweight UIs where needed to support trade enquiry, operational workflows, and exception handling.
- Strong experience as a senior Java backend engineer (microservices), with proven ownership of production systems.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems : concurrency, idempotency, failure handling, consistency models, and resiliency patterns. Hands-on experience designing APIs and integrations using gRPC and Protobuf; familiarity with streaming/real-time update patterns (e.g., SSE).
- Strong PostgreSQL skills (data modelling, indexing, performance tuning) and experience building consistent, auditable transactional stores. DevOps/SRE mindset : CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, monitoring/alerting, and operational tooling (e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/ELK).
- Secure engineering practices : vulnerability management, secrets handling, access control, audit logging, and compliance-aware delivery.
- Domain knowledge of trade lifecycle and STP, ideally in Rates (broader FICC exposure a plus).
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and influencing engineering culture without formal line management.
To be successful, you will :
- 7+ years of IT experience in Java development as an Individual contributor as well as mentor.
- Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills.
- Experience in micro services architecture, Elasticsearch and ELK. Experience in Monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus.
- Exposure to Message driven architectures working on JMS, IBM MQ / Artemis / Solace etc. Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD and Cyber Security tools ex. Teamcity / Jenkins / JIRA / Confluence / NexusIQ / CheckMarx.
- Hands-on experience with RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or NOSQL DBs (e.g. MongoDB). In-depth knowledge of Trade Life cycle & Straight Through Processing (STP).
- Exposure to Fixed Income Currency and Commodities products. High Frequency and Low latency coding, Rust, Go, Python.
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