Fixed Income and Currencies Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, high-performance pricing systems for fixed income trading.
- Drive modernization of infrastructure and applications to meet evolving business needs.
- Provide Level 3 support, ensuring proactive incident resolution and system reliability.
- Collaborate with traders, quants, and technology teams across Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York to enhance platform capabilities.
Profile required
Required:
- 3+ years of C#/.NET development experience with solid understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and modern .NET runtime behavior
- Proven experience building performance-sensitive systems by utilizing concurrency/parallelism, async patterns, profiling and root-cause analysis, benchmarking and regression prevention
- Experience with distributed messaging/event-driven systems, ideally RabbitMQ
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Proficiency with engineering fundamentals: Git-based workflows, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and issue tracking (e.g., Jira), unit/integration testing
- Strong communication skills to collaborate across teams and document technical decisions clearly
- Engineering ownership mindset: proactive about correctness, latency, and reliability; sees issues through to resolution
- Experience working in a global, multi-site engineering team, coordinating development and support across time zones
- Experience with Apache Ignite (or similar in-memory data grid) for low-latency caching, distributed compute, and real-time data access in performance-critical services
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously end-to-end with minimal supervision
Preferred:
- Experience building and supporting production services, including incident management and the ability to debug issues under pressure
- Experience with observability tooling (Grafana, ELK, etc.)
- Experience building robust and scalable real-time web applications with ASP.NET and SignalR
- Experience with WPF and MVVM design patterns using DevExpress
- Exposure to containerization/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) and/or cloud environments
- Knowledge of fixed income products (e.g., bonds, interest rate swaps, FX swaps, etc.)
Behavioral Skills
- Client - Risk: I strive to satisfy clients while taking into account risks for the company
- Client - Client focus: I put long-term relationships with our clients at the center of my actions, whatever my position
- Team Spirit - Open mindset: I listen and share my views and my expertise in an open mode
- Innovation - Technology: I adopt new technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
- Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge
- Responsibility - Risk awareness: I am constantly on the lookout for risks
Business insight
Our Culture:
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. Please visit our APAC career website: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/building-your-career-with/ for more information.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I):
Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.
Our vision:
- Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
- Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
- Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients
Check out our DE&I initiatives: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/
Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations of assistance during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our HR staff know.
Department Description
Join the Technology team at SG Corporate & Investment Banking as part of an agile development group building pricing solutions for the Rates and FX trading desk. Based on the trading floor, you will work closely with traders, quantitative analysts, and global technology teams to deliver high-performance systems that power our fixed income business worldwide.