Full job description19 Oct 2026

Dublin, L, IE, D02 KF20

Who we are

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 as well as investment banking and advisory services, and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets. Read on to find out how you could enhance your skills and gain valuable experience, by joining us to support our clients transition to a sustainable future.

Role Summary

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 other teams such as Risk, Quants, DevOps, Finance and Regulatory Reporting.

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.

The anticipated salary range for this role is €65,000.00 – €121,000.00, 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.

Position Description

Educated to degree level in Computer Science or similar engineering degree.

At least 8+ 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:

Any JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS experience.

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