Senior Core Java Developer

SMBC Capital Markets, Inc. is a market maker for swaps, including interest rate, currency and commodity swaps and related derivative products, headquartered in New York as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMBC. SMBC Capital Markets, Inc. was provisionally registered as a swap dealer with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on December 31, 2012. Our business works in close collaboration with SMBC Nikko Capital Markets, Capital Markets Limited in the UK, and SMBC Capital Markets Asia, Ltd in Hong Kong to provide global coverage to SMBC's corporate, institutional, and project clients. Capital Markets maintains its own middle and back-office functions, including Risk Management, Compliance, Systems, Finance, and Operations.

SMBC Capital Markets, Inc Front Office Technology team is looking for a Software Engineer for their front office suite of application supporting trading, marketing, trade analysis and research.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $103,000 and $206,000. 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.

Hands-on development using Java 17 as the primary language,
• Work with other teams including Front office risk teams, trading desk, Quants, and DevOps to build state of the art front to back pricing and risk solutions,
• Focus on non-functional requirements from the start increasing maintainability and reliability,
• Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes,
• Work closely with the operation team and users and provide level 3 support as required.

Essential skills and qualifications

• 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 application from inception, to design, and to production
• String 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

• Experience from working in the Risk or pricing domain in investment banking, either in Front-office, or Market/Credit risk with a good understanding of risk sensitivities and f2b processes.
• 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