Join the Mizuho team as an Electronic Trading Sr. Java Developer!

Overview

This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a greenfield development project to design and develop a low-latency, electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps, US treasuries and futures.  In this role, you will interact directly with trading, quantitative, compliance and risk, and IT functions to deliver new trading capabilities and services leveraging modern technologies and data & software architectures.

Duties

• Hands on Senior Java Developer with over 5 years of enterprise development experience


• Work with multiple business teams including trading and quantitative analysts


• Provide work estimates as needed


• Develop system architectures, designs and concepts


• Maintain and improve code quality using static & dynamic code analyses, security vulnerability scans, code coverage and CI/CD pipeline gating


• Provide technical guidance and be a technical mentor to the development team


• Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements


• Participate in all phases of software delivery lifecycle from analysis through support.

Required Skills

• Experienced Java Developer (JDK 11 or 17)


• Experience designing and supporting low latency, high throughput trading applications


• Extensive experience with asynchronous, event-driven programming & concurrency

Preferred Skills

• Spring (including Spring Boot and Spring Boot Actuator)


• Apache Camel (Version 3)


• REST API (including Enterprise Authentication and Authentication)


• Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)


• JMS (Active MQ or similar)


• MS SQL Server and/or Sybase experience

Optional Skills

• Experience designing, developing and maintaining low-latency electronic trading solutions for US treasuries, futures or swaps.


• Experience integrating proprietary components with ION, TradeWeb or Bloomberg


• Experience with Capital Markets, understanding how Derivatives instruments are priced and valued, RFQ workflow

Education

Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.

Work arrangement - hybrid

The expected base salary ranges from $160k-$240k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process.   

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill​, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.​​

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.

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