Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Nomura Holdings, inc.•New York, NY

4d•$160,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Information Technology department at Nomura is at the forefront of innovation, driving technology solutions that empower our business and enhance client experiences. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop and maintain robust systems and infrastructure, ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our operations. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that embraces technological advancements to deliver value and drive our digital transformation journey.

Requirements

Provide leadership and functional expertise to the local NY Prime Equity Finance development team
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science / Engineering / Math / Physics or similar
10-15 years demonstrable experience of hands-on development experience
Minimum 7+ years hands-on Java/C++/C#/Rust/Python development
Strong domain knowledge of Securities Lending, including trade lifecycle, locate/availability management, collateral processing, rate calculation and funding
Knowledge of Equity Synthetics and Equity Trading workflows
Java: Java 21, Collections, Spring Boot 3, Java Streams API, concurrency, profiling, garbage collection, JDBC, JMS
Databases: Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL / Stored Procedures), query plan optimization
NoSQL: Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB and in-memory caching technology like Redis
Messaging: Experience with messaging and streaming data infrastructure
Design: Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns, including user experience driven UI development
DevOps: Experience deploying microservices to Docker/Kubernetes
Infrastructure: Understanding of infrastructure tooling and best practices
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels with strong status reporting skills
Proactive learning mindset and the ability to take initiative in identifying and solving problems
Demonstrated interest in technology and modern software design/architecture

Nice To Haves

Web/UI: HTML5 frameworks: React, Redux, Websockets, CSS/Tailwind/Ag Grid
Streaming: Kafka/Pulsar, streaming / reactive programming, serialization protocols, error handling, work distribution
Stream Processing: Real world experience with Risingwave/Flink/Kafka Streams/Spark
Integration: Enterprise Integration Patterns, Apache Camel
Cloud: Experience with AWS, S3, Lambda
CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Observability/Telemetry
Containers: Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
Unix: Bash scripting, system and process monitoring
Data Science: Python, Pandas, Graphing Plotly, Machine Learning SciPy
Optimization: Linear Programming and ML techniques
Data Analytics: Experience using KDB / Clickhouse / Snowflake
Workflow: BPMN / Camunda
AI: Agentic agent development, best practices, guardrails and integration into the developer and system workflows

Responsibilities

Act as Technical Owner for a collection of existing and new components within the Prime Equity Finance space
Own and manage an agile development process for the local team
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development team
Provide leadership to local team of developers while remaining hands-on
Produce robust, tested, modern components utilizing modern technologies and methodologies
Own development of Java applications, ensuring focus on correctness, resilience and quality
Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from initial discussions through to design, development, testing, deployment
Conduct code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices and high standards are followed
Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely manner
Collaborate closely with traders and operations as part of a team to understand their needs and create technical solutions
Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities
Ability to cope with dynamic front-office business needs, stakeholder communication and to deal with changing priorities both from business and technology
Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients whilst under strict deadlines
Be part of a global team with members in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, and New York, contributing to collective goals and supporting colleagues
Collaborate on projects across other technology, business, client and vendor teams
Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills
Document discussions / solutions / processes and track development and issues using Confluence and Jira
Share ideas/observations/improvements with the global team
Primary support is covered by a separate Production Services team; however, at times you may need to assist Production Services and traders to resolve issues and to document postmortems and to own follow ups
Help ensure maximum uptime of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur