Principal Developer

Nomura Holdings, Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura Services India (Powai) seeks an experienced technologist to work on Nomura Instinet’s proprietary sales and trading platform products, addressing diverse trading needs and goals. The role involves a global, cross-region team delivering multi-asset solutions with a focus on performance and reliability.

You will engage with global stakeholders, participate in agile deliveries, and drive multi-month product milestones while mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced, high-availability

Qualifications

• Investment Banking domain knowledge and capital markets understanding.
• Experience with financial markets and local market characteristics.
• Strong Java and multi-threading/concurrency experience.
• Exposure to distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and fixes to low-latency trading platform.
• Participate in full project lifecycle: analysis, design, development, testing.
• Define new solutions meeting business objectives.
• Collaborate across regions with global teams.
• Provide L2/L3 support and production issue resolution.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Core Java

Multithreading

Distributed systems

High performance messaging

Networking

Performance engineering

Leadership skills

Agile / SDLC

Financial markets

Problem solving

Job description

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Nomura is an Asia-based financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com .

Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

Business Overview

Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance.

Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model execution business (Instinet) of the Nomura Group. This business provides brokerage services to clients in over 6 5 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com .

GES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK, Japan and India, owns and delivers multiple product stacks.

GES India works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for our clients and for Nomura global execution business.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
• We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Role Overview:

The candidate will work on Nomura Instinet’s proprietary sales and trading platform products, that address our client’s diverse range of trading needs and goals. The platform trades a significant portion of client order flow per day globally and represents a business-critical system for the firm. We provide our users typically traders an integrated global markets experience supporting multiple asset classes across regions.

The team works closely with algo strategy teams, and integrates with multiple UX interfaces, providing users with a well-integrated trading experience. The role requires a strong technologist with deep experience in mission critical and highly evolving systems. This is a hands‑on individual contributor role along with opportunities to manage multiple module deliveries independently and level up the product overall.

The candidate will engage with global / regional stakeholders and deliver on multi-month product delivery milestones. The candidate also engage business analysts, delivery leads, and business users and ensuring, incremental product deliveries and met, using agile methodologies.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Deliver new features, enhancements and bug fixes to our trading platform that has low latency and high throughout processing mandates.
• Participate in the full project life cycle including technical analysis, design, data analysis and mapping, development and testing
• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.
• Liaise with the business and development teams with regards to priorities and progress of various tasks and projects.
• Ensure adherence to functional architecture strategy and compliance to company development standards.
• If necessary, help manage projects for the implementation of new systems or system upgrades.
• Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC – including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions
• L2 & L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature.
• Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews
• Willing to own deliveries and work hands‑on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.
• Mentor/guide other junior team members as necessary.

Mandatory Skill Set :

• Investment Banking domain – good understanding of capital markets
• Experience working with financial markets and understanding of local market characteristics
• Strong technical skills in
• Strong Core Java
• High performance messaging
• Multi-threading
• Networking (TCP/UDP)
• Performance engineering
• Strong understanding of multi-threading - concurrency and synchronization and its application.
• Exposure to distributed systems, message-oriented architecture, event driven systems.
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Demonstrates good communication & leadership skills
• Demonstrates self-direction and initiative in achieving objectives
• Strong self-management skills with ability to prioritize and execute
• Ability to exhibit high level of professionalism in team-oriented environment, able to work with global teams across geographies

Desired Skill Set :

• Knowledge of execution services (sales client connectivity / algo / market connectivity).
• FNO domain knowledge
• Prior experience in development of trading systems in equity markets.
• Skilled in AI tools like Claude / CoPilot et al, to help leapfrog on time to market of product features and improve productivity