Senior Software Engineer (C# / .NET / Azure DevOps)
About The Position
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc. (DCMA) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Application Development team, supporting the Risk & Trading Applications team. The team develops and supports business-critical applications and integrations for trading workflows, market data processing, reference data, messaging, and related operational processes. This senior individual contributor role focuses on designing, developing, modernizing, and supporting C#/.NET solutions while strengthening software quality, release discipline, and operational resilience. The engineer will work across application code, SQL Server, interfaces, production diagnostics, and Azure DevOps. The role provides technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing, but has no direct people-management responsibility. The position reports to the Director of App Dev Risk & Trading. DCMA is a New York-based securities broker-dealer and financial services firm focused on sales and trading across equities, fixed income instruments, financial futures, and investment banking for institutional customers. The company offers a hybrid work program; employees are expected to work in the office at least three days per week, with remote work opportunities depending on the role and departmental needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
- Strong professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on development with C# and .NET Framework and/or modern .NET.
- Experience designing and supporting production enterprise applications, APIs, services, batch processes, or integration solutions.
- Practical experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, pull requests, build automation, release management, and software change controls.
- Strong SQL Server skills, including query development, stored procedures, data validation, schema awareness, and performance troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of object-oriented design, dependency injection, common design patterns, automated testing, secure coding, logging, monitoring, and root cause analysis.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment during production issues, and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in financial services, capital markets, trading systems, fixed income, market data, or post-trade processing.
- Experience with FIX, SWIFT, MQ, Bloomberg, event-driven architecture, Azure services, application modernization, or container-based deployment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance, and support enterprise applications, services, APIs, batch processes, and integration components using C#, .NET, SQL Server, and related Microsoft technologies.
- Modernize application components to improve maintainability, testability, performance, security, documentation, and operational resilience while preserving critical business processes.
- Build and improve Azure DevOps repositories and CI/CD pipelines, including pull request workflows, build validation, automated testing, release automation, deployment controls, and traceability.
- Support trading and integration workflows involving market data, messaging, reference data, vendor platforms, file exchanges, REST services, MQ or similar middleware, and other enterprise interfaces.
- Investigate production issues using application logs, database queries, message-flow tracing, monitoring tools, and source-code analysis; document root causes and implement durable corrective actions.
- Provide technical leadership through solution design, code reviews, development standards, troubleshooting, mentoring, and knowledge transfer for junior and mid-level developers.
- Collaborate with business users, operations, infrastructure, project management, risk, and other technology teams to deliver well-controlled solutions in a regulated financial-services environment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Basic life insurance, AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts (FSA and HSA).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Health and wellness benefits.
- Parental leave.
- Family building benefits.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Professional development, educational assistance, and training programs.
- Community engagement programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
