VP, Software Engineer - APAC Derivatives Market Making

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our APAC Derivatives Market Making team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of cutting-edge, low-latency trading applications that drive our derivatives trading strategies across the Asia-Pacific region. The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance systems essential for market making activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement low-latency trading applications using Java as the primary development language.
• Work with various database technologies, including Sybase and MongoDB.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative analysts, risk management functions, and other engineering teams to gather requirements, analyze technical specifications, and deliver robust solutions.
• Optimize application performance, ensuring ultra-low latency and high throughput for critical trading functions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and support.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of trading systems.

• Contribute to the improvement of the development ecosystem, including dev tools, QA automation frameworks, and Continuous Integration pipelines of the platforms.

  Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Java, with a proven track record of developing high-performance / low-latency applications and automated trading platforms.
• Experience with C++ and HTML5 is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with relational databases (e.g., Sybase) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB). Demonstrated knowledge of derivatives products (options, futures, warrants, CBBCs, etc.) and market making concepts.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment, preferably within financial services or trading.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with an ability to debug and troubleshoot complex systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented setting.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a relevant field.

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  Job Family Group:
  Technology

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  Job Family:
  Applications Development

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  Time Type:
  Full time

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  Most Relevant Skills
  Please see the requirements listed above.

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