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About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Vice President Java Developer to join our Front Office Fixed Income Technology team in New York. The successful candidate will partner directly with traders, sales, quants, risk managers, and business stakeholders to design, develop, and support mission-critical trading, pricing, risk, and trade lifecycle management applications. This is a hands-on development role requiring strong technical expertise, solid Fixed Income business knowledge, and the ability to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions in a fast-paced front-office environment. The candidate will play a key role in modernizing the technology stack, driving engineering best practices, and leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and software quality.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain front-office applications using Java 17+.
Build high-performance, low-latency, and scalable services supporting trading, pricing, risk management, position management, and trade lifecycle workflows.
Develop microservices and event-driven solutions using modern architecture patterns.
Design and implement robust APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
Participate in architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support activities.
Work directly with traders, sales teams, quants, risk managers, operations users, and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions.
Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable technical designs.
Partner closely with the business to automate workflows and improve operational efficiency.
Drive software engineering best practices including clean code, TDD, automated testing, secure coding, code reviews, and CI/CD.
Promote observability, resiliency, and operational excellence across applications.
Utilize GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery, code quality, documentation, test coverage, and developer productivity.
Provide Level 3 support for business-critical production systems.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis.
Participate in release planning, deployment activities, and production readiness reviews.
Collaborate with global technology teams across New York, London, and Asia.
Work closely with DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, QA, and business teams.
Mentor junior developers and contribute to technical leadership across the organization.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on software development experience using Java, preferably Java 17 or later.
Strong experience with Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Microservices architecture, Multithreading and concurrency, Event-driven architectures, Messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ, or JMS), and Relational databases and SQL.
Strong understanding of Data structures and algorithms, Object-oriented design and design patterns, Distributed systems, Performance tuning and optimization, and Scalable application architectures.
Demonstrated experience using GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted software development tools.
Ability to effectively leverage GitHub Copilot for software development, code generation, unit and integration test creation, refactoring, code modernization, documentation generation, code reviews, and productivity improvements.
Strong understanding of validating AI-generated code and applying engineering best practices.
Experience working within Front Office technology organizations in investment banking.
Strong understanding of Fixed Income products.
Experience building or supporting trading, pricing, risk management, position management, or trade lifecycle management systems.
Strong experience implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and Production support and incident management processes.
Proven track record delivering enterprise applications from inception through production deployment.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced front-office environment.
Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (Preferred).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (Preferred).
Knowledge of Fixed Income risk analytics including DV01, PV01, CS01, VaR, and stress testing (Preferred).
Experience integrating with trading and market platforms such as Bloomberg TOMS, Bloomberg ALLQ, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, BrokerTec, or Tradeweb (Preferred).
Experience developing real-time risk, position, or trade management systems (Preferred).
Experience leading technical design discussions and mentoring development teams (Preferred).

Skills

Java 17+
Spring Boot
RESTful APIs
Microservices architecture
Multithreading and concurrency
Event-driven architectures
Kafka
MQ
JMS
Relational databases
SQL
Data structures
Algorithms
Object-oriented design
Design patterns
Distributed systems
Performance tuning
Application scalability
GitHub Copilot
AI-assisted development tools
Fixed Income products
Trading systems
Pricing systems
Risk management systems
Trade lifecycle management systems
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Automated testing
CI/CD pipelines
Agile/Scrum
Production support
Incident management
Microsoft Azure (Preferred)
AWS (Preferred)
Google Cloud (Preferred)
Docker (Preferred)
Kubernetes (Preferred)
Fixed Income risk analytics (Preferred)
Bloomberg TOMS (Preferred)
Bloomberg ALLQ (Preferred)
Tradeweb (Preferred)
MarketAxess (Preferred)
BrokerTec (Preferred)

Location

New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Vice President

Salary/Compensations

$158,000.00 - $205,000.00

Benefits

Competitive portfolio of benefits
Annual discretionary incentive award

About the Company

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group headquartered in Tokyo with a 400-year history.
Offers a diverse range of financial services including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance.
Has over 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.
SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
Offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients in the Americas.
Connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network.
Operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Equal Opportunity

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.