Full Stack Developer - Index Structuring IT Team; Associate

Full Stack Developer - Index Structuring IT Team (Associate)

Job Title: Full Stack Developer - Index Structuring IT Team

Corporate

Title:

Associate

Job Type: Permanent

Department: Global Markets IT

Location: London (Hybrid) - 1 Angel Lane, London, EC4R 3AB

Company overview: Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions:
Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit

Role

Description:

An exciting opportunity has come up for a Full Stack Developer to join the QIS Sirius dev team building out a generalized algorithm execution engine called Sirius running in AWS private cloud. The team works in partnership with quant and strats developers to build and implement new Algorithmic Indices in Sirius. In addition to the front office, we work closely with the cloud engineering team to ensure that AWS provides the features required to scale and enhance the capability of Sirius to meet challenging demands of the QIS business.

The system itself comprises a collection of microservices implemented in python and java together with a web application implemented in typescript/react. The core of the system is a Neo4j graph database which contains state of all data, calculations, errors, etc. This drives the system and provides the UI with a comprehensive view of the world. Finally, all data produced and consumed is stored on-premises in a MSSQL RDBMS.

Once up to speed, the developer is expected to work across ALL technologies used on the platform. Please note that the role includes level three support for the Sirius production platform.

Typical Duties:

• Joining the daily morning scrum to progress Jiras or other immediate pressing issues.
• Developing code.
• Taking part in sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Responding to user’s (quants, strats, prod support) on MS-Teams channels.
• Reviewing merge-requests in current sprint.
• Owning a release, AWS EKS upgrade.
• Working with Cloud‑ops to set up AWS features.
• Working with SDLC/Devops/Infra teams in CI/CD, on‑prem server provisioning.
• Working internal teams to source market data and data from other Nomura systems.
• Investigating and fleshing out the details in a JIRA for any bugs or problems reported in the system.
• Performing spikes to work out technical issues to meet a requirement in an epic.
• Technical presentations on spikes, features or new technologies of general interest to users and developers.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge required:

Technology and activities you will be focused on in this role - you must have at least 3 of the below skills (we are happy for you to grow in the role and upskill in other areas).

Your technical interview will be tailored/adjusted to ensure it covers technologies you are experienced in.

• CI/CD with Kubernetes
• Developing applications to run in AWS - using S3, EKS, EFS, etc.
• Modern Python development in a front‑office environment
• TDD experience developing Java 21+ server applications using IOC frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Experience in graph databases: designing schema and writing performant Cypher queries
• Experience in developing React/Typescript web applications
• Experience in designing database schema and writing performant SQL with RDBMS

Soft

Skills required:

• Self‑driven with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• A willingness to learn new skills in a fast‑moving technical landscape.
• Excellent organisational and communications skills both written and verbal.
• Commercially driven and the ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.

• Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize…