Front Office Trading Software Engineer

Societe Generale SA; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong is seeking a Front Office Developer to design and implement electronic trading software for our securities and financing trading desk. You will work closely with front office users on the trading floor, ensuring performance, resiliency and security of the platform.

The role requires solid C experience, strong software design skills, and a bachelor’s degree in a technical field.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with C
• Quality oriented with emphasis on software design and architecture
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (computer science, mathematics, engineering)
• Ability to work in an integrated team
• Experience with object-oriented designs and common patterns
• Experience in multi-threading and concurrency problematics
• Knowledge of network protocols and socket programming
• Experience in Stocks and Derivatives product
• Experience of software development of trading algorithms and strategies

Responsibilities

• Gather user requirements, and design software solutions which will match business needs from the front office, taking into account cost and delays constraints, agreed with both IT management and head of desk.
• Be proactive by proposing enhancements from which the business/IT can benefit
• Ensure the performance and resiliency of the trading platform
• Be risk aware on both trading and IT perspective
• Implement, test and deploy the software solution within agreed constraints and existing code
• Handle level 1&2 support on implemented solutions
• Provide a good reactivity in case of incidents
• Perform necessary follow up for production incidents, in order to anticipate and detect potential technical issues
• The candidate will need to work very closely with various teams: Sitting close to front office users in Hong Kong to provide support of the trading platform, Liaise & interact with worldwide team members and users, In house IT teams (dev and support) in charge of other technical components of the platform

Skills

C

Software design

teamwork

Front office trading

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Object-oriented design

Multithreading

Networking protocols

Job description

Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong is seeking a Front Office Developer to design and implement electronic trading software for our securities and financing trading desk. You will work closely with front office users on the trading floor, ensuring performance, resiliency and security of the platform.

The role requires solid C experience, strong software design skills, and a bachelor’s degree in a technical field.