Java Developer

Here at SMBC Group, we want to help you find the next step in your career so read on to discover if this opportunity is the one for you. We like to recognise potential in our people, so we welcome your application even when your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description. While we'll always strive to be better, we're proud of our inclusive culture, and encourage our applicants and colleagues to be their authentic, unique selves.

The anticipated salary range for this role is £58,000 - £88,000, with the final offer determined based on the candidate’s skills, experience, role scope, location, and relevant market factors. In addition to base salary, the role may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award and a competitive benefits package, including core benefits such as pension provision.

United by a sense of purpose towards our customers – to be a trusted partner for the long-term – and our universal banking platform in EMEA, SMBC Group has an international growth agenda and award-winning products, meaning we provide exciting opportunities to work on a diverse range of projects and initiatives. We deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers, including corporate, structured and trade finance, leveraged finance, loan market and treasury products. We can also provide investment banking and advisory services and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets.

The role is for a software developer within the ITSD Business Platforms and part of an important workstream of the Sales & Trading Team. The software developer will be part of a global team working on a pre-execution sales trader workflow system for structuring, valuing and matching voice deals for Interest Rate products.

A proactive self-starter who can take initiative and get things done; Can influence cross discipline teams to achieve complex deliveries. The individual will be expected to participate in regular team meetings and agile ceremonies. The individual must be able to work within a technology team in a collaborative manner, demonstrating the impact of any system changes. The individual must be able to work with Business/Functional Analysts, Product Owners and other IT partners. Key interface will be with other team members, development leads, and other development managers across multiple regions. Understand requirements from other technology teams and non-technical functions.

You may also be required to work with other teams such as Risk, Quants, DevOps, Finance and Regulatory Reporting.

Position Description:

• Hands-on development using Java 25 as the primary language.
• Focus on functional and non-functional requirements whilst maintaining extensibility and reliability of software solutions.
• Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes.
• Work closely with our traders and production support; Provide level 3 support as required.
• Educated to degree level in Computer Science or similar engineering degree.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including concurrency, algorithms and data structures.
• Extensive experience and understanding of distributed systems, developing, profiling, and maintaining multi-threaded, asynchronous applications.
• Ability to deliver software on short cycles using Scrum/Agile methodology.
• Strong core Java development skills including streams, lambdas, and advanced concurrency APIs.
• Experience of working with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and Open Shift.
• JVM monitoring, profiling, performance tuning, and debugging.
• Extensive experience of test-driven development.
• Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems.

Nice to have:

• Experience from working in the pricing or risk domain in investment banking, either in front-office, or Market/Credit risk with a good understanding of risk sensitivities and F2B processes.
• Algo trading related experience, low latency focus, lock free programming, sub millisecond / microsecond-sensitive workloads.
• Hands-on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment (EKS/Nomad), container/Docker deployment, GRPC services, or cloud-based services.
• Experience with Kafka or other event processing/message bus.
• Experience with Workflow/Scheduling/State management.

There will at times be the need to balance project work, BAU and support tasks so utilising their time efficiently will be key.

For all the expertise and experience you bring to help us make a difference, it’s only sustainable if we support you to build your career and be your best self so we offer competitive company benefits, centred around promoting positive well-being and work-life balance. We also believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, where all team members' perspectives and contributions are valued. Initiatives in place which promote a diverse and inclusive culture and healthy work life balance include hybrid working, Sport & Social Clubs and Diversity and Inclusion networks.

As an employee of SMBC you have access to a host of both useful and exciting benefit offerings:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Competitive paid leave days
• Benefits to support your physical wellbeing, including private medical insurance and life and invalidity insurance
• Various policies to support your mental wellbeing, including a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities and career progression opportunities

We recognise our role as a bank to support social change and welcome all applications, including those from groups often under-represented in financial services. We value the uniqueness of professional and personal backgrounds and perspectives as they play a vital role in continuing the sustainable growth of our organisation. We'll ensure reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process are offered due to a disability or long-term condition whenever requested.

We are committed to transparent and equitable pay practices. Compensation is determined using objective criteria, including skills, experience, and role responsibilities, and applied consistently throughout our recruitment processes. We do not request candidates' pay history and are committed to preventing unjustified pay disparities.