Fixed Income Front Office Software Engineer (Contract) - IT (Information Technology) - Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Societe Generale; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong seeks a skilled developer to build and enhance pricing and distribution systems for fixed income. You will provide hands‑on front‑office support, gather desk requirements, and drive changes from idea to production.

Collaborate with quantitative analysts and tech teams to deliver integrated pricing capabilities, contributing to a global team across HK, Paris, London, and New York.

Qualifications

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

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

Messaging systems

Git / CI-CD / Jira

OO design principles

Production support

Tools

RabbitMQ

NATS

Kafka

Git

CI/CD

Jira

WPF / DevExpress

ASP.NET

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.

Profile 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 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

Why join us

Business insight

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 operateInclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talentsEngage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clientsCheck 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.