Fixed Income Front Office Software Engineer

Societe Generale; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale in Hong Kong seeks a hands-on, autonomous software professional to build pricing and distribution systems for fixed income. You will support traders and sales, push fixes to production, and translate desk requirements into robust software solutions.

Collaborate with quants and tech teams to deliver integrated pricing capabilities across the platform, working with a global team in HK, Paris, London and New York.

Qualifications

• Strong ownership and problem-solving under time pressure.
• Operate autonomously, owning issues end to end from idea to production.
• Proficiency in an object-oriented language, ideally C# and .NET; solid SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance pricing and distribution systems for the fixed income business.
• Provide hands-on front-office support for traders and sales, resolving issues quickly and driving permanent fixes.
• Gather requirements directly from the desk, propose pragmatic solutions, and deliver changes through to production.
• Collaborate with quantitative analysts and technology teams to deliver integrated pricing capabilities across the platform.
• Contribute to a global team across Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York.

Skills

C#

NET

SQL

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

NATS

Kafka

Git

CI/CD

Jira

Object-oriented programming

Software design principles

Maintaining code

React

Angular

Vue

WPF

DevExpress

ASP.NET

SignalR

Docker

Cloud

Tools

RabbitMQ

NATS

Kafka

Git

CI/CD

Jira

ASP.NET

SignalR

WPF

DevExpress

React

Angular

Vue

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance pricing and distribution systems for the fixed income business
• Provide hands-on front-office support for traders and sales, resolving issues quickly and driving permanent fixes.
• Gather requirements directly from the desk, propose pragmatic solutions, and deliver changes through to production.
• Collaborate with quantitative analysts and technology teams to deliver integrated pricing capabilities across the platform
• Contribute to a global team across Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York.

Required

'- Strong ownership and problem-solving skills, comfortable working under time pressure and supporting production systems

• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, owning issues and enhancements end to end from idea to production
• Proficiency in an object-oriented language, ideally C# and .NET
• Solid SQL skills and experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Experience with messaging or event-driven systems like RabbitMQ, NATS or Kafka
• Familiarity with modern delivery practices and tooling such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Jira.
• Understanding of software design principles and writing maintainable code

Preferred

• Experience building web UIs using frameworks like React, Angular or Vue
• Experience building desktop user interfaces with WPF and DevExpress
• Experience building robust and scalable real-time web applications with ASP.NET and SignalR
• Exposure to containerized deployment and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Fixed Income and FX products such as bonds, interest rate swaps, and FX swaps

Behavioral Skills

• Client - Client focus: I put long term relationship with our clients at the center of my actions, whatever my position
• Team Spirit - Collective mindset: I favour the team’s interest over my own results
• Innovation - Thinking out of the box/Creativity: I propose new ideas and solutions
• Responsibility - Performance: I strive for high performance
• Innovation - Technology: I adopt new technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
• Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge

Our Culture

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. Please visit our APAC career website: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/building-your-career-with/ for more information.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I)

Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our vision

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

Check out our DE&I initiatives: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations of assistance during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our HR staff know.

Department Description

As part of the Technology department of SG Corporate and Investment Banking, you will join a development team building pricing solutions for the rates and FX trading desk.

The team is located on the trading floor and operates as a feature team to develop and support fixed income trading pricing systems. It is composed of developers with expertise on the entire fixed income pricing chain, working together as one, to ensure self-sufficiency and proactive incident resolution at all stages of the software development process.