Software Engineering & Development, AVP

Who we are looking for.

State Street Markets FX Re-platforming is a program to advance our Trading, Risk, Sales and Operational capabilities. This position will require working with global teams on FORTE project which is our new FX front office risk and trading ecosystem.

Why is this role important to us:

As our FX business growth accelerating, to provide timely support to our business and quick to market, we need this position to work in Hong Kong office as the key developer to deliver FORTE system and provide production support for APAC business users.

What you will be responsible for:

• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create working and sustainable software of high complexity.
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced software technical issues.
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications, and projects using React, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages.
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Identify ways of improving the development of test methodologies and related test methodology frameworks.
• Provide L4 support when issue or incident occurs.

What we value:

• Expertise in Software Engineering best practices, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
• Good understanding of Internet Protocols (HTTP), Front-end frameworks for the Web including React, HTML5, JSON, JavaScript, TypeScript.
• Demonstrated experience with API styles like REST, RPC, gRPC or OpenAPI
• Good Understanding of Native and External Web-Browser controls.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and Oracle.
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• 5 - 10 years of software engineering experience.
• 3 years of experience in financial services domain.