Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer Job Code: 12903 Country: IN City: Mumbai Skill Category: IT\Technology Role & Responsibilities: Latency Sensitive Trading (LSET) provides quant hedge funds and high frequency trading firms with ultralow latency Direct Market Access (DMA) services and service tools (SWS) for tracking client risk and trading flows. This is highly technically advanced and industry leading product that covers all key geographical markets. This is an individual contributor position with high ownership within LSET IT team. The selected person would be part of Instinet Execution Services LSET IT team. The selected person would report to Global Head for LSET / GES India Head and would work closely with global LSET IT team across London, New York, Tokyo and Mumbai. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Java Technologist to join our LSET development team building a highperformance, lowlatency HighFrequency Trading (HFT) platform. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing systems that handle realtime market data, order routing, and execution at microsecond latencies. You should be passionate about writing highly efficient, concurrent, and performancecritical code and have strong knowledge of Java internals, network programming, and lowlatency system design Role & Responsibilities: Develop large, complex Latency Sensitive Trading Product Suite. Optimize performance for ultralow latency, highthroughput processing Build execution gateways and interfaces to multiple exchanges and dark pools. Implement faulttolerant systems and robust recovery mechanisms. Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and tuning JVM/GC/networking performance Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives. Work with the product team, stakeholders and endusers for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization. Design and develop highquality software deliveries within the committed deadlines. Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions L3 support quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature. Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews Willing to own deliveries and work handson across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support. Proven experience building lowlatency trading systems or realtime data pipelines. Strong understanding of FIX protocols and Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, Aeron, Chronicle Queue (nice to have) Position Specifications: Experience 15-18 years Qualification B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech Mandatory Skill Set : Investment Banking domain good understanding of capital markets Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets especially Compliance related issues and challenges Any exposure to exchange connectivity / FIX / Trading Systems Excellent technical skills in Strong Core Java High performance messaging Multithreading, memory management Networking (TCP/UDP) Performance optimization Gitlab CI Continuous Integration Experience of Trading System Development and/or Complex Event Processing Deep understanding of multithreading, NIO, concurrency, lockfree data structures, and GC tuning Strong Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, Aeron, Chronicle Queue (nice to have) Understanding of memory management, multithreading concurrency and synchronization. Experience with memorymapped files, offheap storage, or zerocopy I/O Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills Strong communication & leadership skills Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions. Exposure to C, C++, FPGA/Verilog would be a plus Desired Skill Set : Python