Software Engineer - Fixed Income Vice President

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

 

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

 

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $103,000.00 and $206,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

SMBC is in process of leading a Digital Transformation across our Americas Division as we continue to modernize our technology, focus on our data driven approach, grow and plan for the future. As a result of this expansion, we are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our Technology team.

 

Reporting to the Fixed Income Tech Lead, this position will be working with our project teams and directly with our traders. Here you will regularly be working with and presenting to senior SME at the bank.  The role requires the individual to have a proactive and positive approach, client-facing and interpersonal skills and can work collaboratively with the Development organization.

 

Role Objectives

• Hands-on development using Java 17 as the primary language
• Work with Fixed Income sales, traders and quants to design and develop an innovative trading platform and build out APIs to integrate our bank with third-party trading platforms
• Focus on non-functional requirements from the start increasing maintainability and reliability
• Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes
• Support application design, development, and implementation of trading platforms

Qualifications and Skills

Essential skills:

• Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
• Proactive self-starter who is able to take initiative and roll up sleeves to get things done. Can influence cross discipline teams to achieve complex deliveries
• Scrum/agile methodology (Product owner and/or Scrum master), or ability to deliver software on short cycles
• Evidence of delivering applications from inception, to design, and to production
• Strong core Java development skills including streams, lambdas, and advanced concurrency APIs
• Extensive experience and understanding of distributed systems, developing, profiling, and maintaining multi-threaded, asynchronous applications
• JVM monitoring, profiling, performance tuning, and debugging. Experience with analysis tools such as JConsole, JVisualVM, Elastic Search/Logstash, Prometheus; Open tracing
• Extensive experience of test-driven development
• Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems

Desired skills:

• Investment banking experience in the trading or pricing domains, with Front-office trading tools exposure and a good understanding of f2b trade flow
• Knowledge of Bloomberg TOMS, MarketAxess, Tradeweb, ION, or other third-party trading platforms is a plus
• Hands-on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment (EKS/Nomad), container/docker deployment, GRPC services, Cloud based services (Prometheus, Elastic Search, databases, Redis),
• Experience with Kafka or event processing thru message bus
• Experience with Workflow/Scheduling/State management

Additional Requirements

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a