C# SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solution center for Societe Generale, one of the largest European financial groups. We provide high-quality professional services for more than 35 countries in various fields of activity – Finance & Accounting, HR, IT and Corporate Operations. Our mission is to be a partner of choice, valued for owning, transforming and innovating through best in class talent. IT Filiere is part of the Centre and comprises four Perimeters: Retail Banking, Security and Infrastructure, Internal Support Applications and Investment Banking,  with a total of more than 800 IT professionals.

 Project Description:

Our application proposes a low latency direct market access for equity business, for Asian markets. It will be used by front office and middle office for different functions: centralized decision-making, real-time monitoring & execution, risk management, performance tracking, enhanced analytics & insights.  In the same time, the application is key for MARK pre-trade workflow and connects with portfolio management, risk systems, CRM, and external APIs.

Specifically, you will be required to:

• Design and develop technical services to implement a Direct Market Access solution for Asia equity market;

• Design and develop new back-end features as part of an agile/scrum team;

• Ensure the delivery of high-quality and scalable solutions using modern development practices such as clean code, automated testing, monitoring, alerting and secure by design;

• Develop high performance/throughput and especially resilient and maintainable services;

• Participate in new features validation, testing, release management;

• Provide L3 support on application in production environment, as needed (second phase of the project;

• Drive innovation and contribute with new ideas for the existing architecture, services and processes;

• Maintain a close relationship with the international team and ensure the delivery of high quality features. Smooth collaboration with extended teams working on multiple time zones.

·        Solid understanding of C# ASP.NET 8.0, ideally 3-5 years working experience, at least 2 with Web applications;

·        Good knowledge in optimizing processing (memory, CPU); project requires development aligned with low latency and real time systems constraints;

·        Experience with gRPC protocol, caching, threading and synchronization mechanisms;

·        Solid understanding of service oriented architecture and microservices;

·        Hands-on experience with git, unit testing & continuous integration frameworks (Jenkins, Github Actions, NUnit, etc.);

·        Experience with PostgreSQL, ORM frameworks;

·        Experience with Docker and Kubernetes microservices;

·        Good command of English, both written and spoken with the ability to participate in English-only meetings;

·        Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

 Nice to have:

·        Experience with and ElasticSearch stack or similar tools would be a plus;

·        Functional knowledge on financial markets and especially equity markets (stock, futures, OTC products) would be a plus.

·        French knowledge would be a plus;

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus; 
• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance; 
• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget; 
• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs; 
• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;
• 9-to-5 workday & flexible (hybrid) work environment;
• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave; 
• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans; 
• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years, or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

 Still hesitating?

We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.

 We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.