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Principal Software Engineer

NOMURA

NOMURA

Software Engineering
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Jan 6, 2026

Nomura Overview:

Nomura Services, India is a core center of excellence powering the group's global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in shaping, strengthening, and accelerating Nomura's global operations.

At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support, and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program, and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards 2021.

Business Unit Overview

Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model execution business (Instinet) of the Nomura Group, This business provides brokerage services to clients in over 60 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies, and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

GES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK and India. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for global execution business.

The Electronic Trading Control (ETC) Team delivers scalable automation solutions to enhance observability, efficiency and resilience across highly critical trading platforms.

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title

Associate

Functional Title

Lead Developer / Principal

Experience

7-10 years

Qualification

B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech

Requisition No

Role & Responsibilities:

This is a senior individual contributor position. The selected person would be part of GES Tech – Global ETC (Electronic Trading Control) Dev team and would report to its India IT Lead (VP). It is very high ownership position as the significant product suite is delivered and managed out of Mumbai IT team. The role and responsibilities are as follows:

  • Develop and maintain large, complex ETC Product Suite. Contribute to development of features.

  • Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new UX solutions that meet business objectives.

  • Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.

  • Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.

  • Agile –participate in weekly scrums

  • Collaborate with various development and support teams across 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.

  • Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.

  • Provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.

  • Gain understanding of various applications and systems being developed by peer groups.

  • Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.

  • Willing to learn Java with multi-threading and other new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.

Key Skills:

Mandatory

Desirable

Domain

  • Investment Banking domain - Good understanding of capital markets

  • Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges

Technical

  • Excellent UX design skills

  • Excellent technical skills in
    • Excellent React.js
    • Typescript or JavaScript/ES6
    • HTML5, CSS3
    • NPM, Webpack, Rollup
    • REST
    • MySQL, SingleStore
    • UNIX
    • DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Nexus

  • Experience of Test Driven development

  • Strong skills in application performance management and event driven architecture

  • Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Quick learner

  • Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Knowledge of Core Java with multi-threading is a strong plus.

If not, then person should be ready to learn